- Stress and anxiety
- Life purpose work
- Attachment focus
About Gunjani
Gunjani Patel-Oza is a licensed professional counselor with LPCC and a licensed mental health counselor with LMHC, practicing in California. She brings 17 years of experience working with stress, anxiety, relationships, sleep trouble, and life changes. Her work also addresses eating concerns, compassion fatigue, and questions about life purpose.
She focuses on practical conversations that help people untangle what feels stuck. Sessions often look at attachment patterns, communication problems, and how past losses or separations shape current choices. She uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to guide those discussions.
Gunjani also works with people coping with panic attacks, phobias, dissociation, and symptoms after trauma. She incorporates EMDR where appropriate to work with memories that feel overwhelming. In sessions she helps clients notice patterns of guilt, shame, or isolation and then tries out small changes to reduce day-to-day distress.
Her background includes supporting people through divorce and separation and helping parents manage postpartum depression and related stress. She also offers coaching-style support for people facing career transitions or leadership challenges. The emphasis is on clear steps and manageable goals rather than abstract advice.
People who reach out can expect a conversational approach that centers their present needs. She will work with each person to set goals and methods that fit their life, including addressing questions around life purpose and next steps.
Approaches in online sessions and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts. It can help when someone feels stuck, uncertain about direction, or overwhelmed by anxiety.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they influence current connections and trust. This approach is useful for people who notice repeating communication problems, fear of abandonment, or difficulty forming close bonds.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on identifying and reshaping emotional responses in close relationships. It can be helpful for improving communication and reducing reactive cycles with important people in life.
Finding the best therapeutic approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and practical needs, and then recommend methods to try. That decision is collaborative and may shift over time as progress is reviewed.
Confirm the current session formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week and reduce travel time. Some formats may be shorter check-ins or phone sessions that use less bandwidth, which can help when schedules are tight or a brief follow-up is needed. The focus is on making sessions practical and accessible so therapy can fit into everyday life.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
17+ years
Listed in
California, Florida
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, sleep issues, coping with life changes, eating concerns, compassion fatigue and questions about life purpose.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She uses conversational, goal-oriented work drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based approaches and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address patterns and present difficulties.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 17 years of professional experience working in counseling and related roles.
What are her credentials and location?
She holds LPCC and LMHC credentials and practices in California.
Can sessions be held in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with clients outside the United States?
She accepts international clients.
How are sessions charged?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I need to do to start working together?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the crisis numbers.