I am warm and interactive, adapting to what you bring and feels appropriate in the moment. I often use metaphors and imagery to promote and convey meaning and depth when plain words do not adequately capture the nuance of your experience. |
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As a woman of color and an immigrant, I hold a social justice perspective and sensibility in listening for the ways in which marginalization and microaggressions have become oppressive internalized beliefs. I welcome and respect your unique identities and life experiences. I have comfort and experience working with a diverse range of people culturally and racially, and with gender expansive identities and relationship structures.
People sometimes ask me what type of therapy I use. I tailor your therapy to your unique context and needs. Although I may utilize a variety of perspectives, such as object relations, attachment, CBT, and mindfulness, my primary approach is relational and psychodynamic. Relational therapy recognizes the importance of relationships to our mental health and well-being. We develop our sense of self, heal, and change in relationship with someone who is empathic and attuned to us. I work to establish a foundation of trust and collaboration in our therapeutic relationship. The experience of our relationship provides a path to understanding wounding that occurred in previous relationships and provides a source for a new healing experience of relationship. |
Together we explore your past and current relationships to shed light on your current distress, sense of disconnection, and self-worth. I also consider the effects of differences in power or equality as well as the impact of social issues such as class, race, gender, and culture.
Psychodynamic therapy explores deep-rooted assumptions, life experiences, and relationships to uncover and understand the underlying causes of symptoms and repetitive patterns. Although people feel relief from current issues, the aim is growth, awareness, and sustained well-being. In our work together, we will address immediate concerns, and along the way, look at how past experiences may be creating barriers and contributing to present-day hardships. As I listen to your current situation as well as your 'life story,' I tune in to deeper, long-standing beliefs, assumptions, and expectations you have developed to cope ― which are often times outside your awareness. With greater self-knowledge, you begin to feel you have more choice and agency in your own life. Together we identify areas where you can feel more self-acceptance and areas where you want to create change. |
BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE
After a fruitful business career spanning 20 years, I felt a deep desire to work one-on-one with people to help them live more joyfully and with a greater sense of vitally and fulfillment. I wanted to help people feel connected and experience rewarding and enriching relationships, and I wanted to help people feel empowered to achieve personal and professional aspirations. As a therapist, I am honored to help couples and individuals, who feel anxiety, self-doubt, low self-esteem, emptiness, lost, or lack of meaning, and I feel gratified in helping them feel greater joy, confidence, and ease in relation to others and themselves, and in their lives.
As a business professional my strengths revolved around building relationships, listening, identifying needs, and supporting individuals and groups to be more effective in their work and business. My experience managing people and expectations, delivering quality service and training has been an invaluable complement my psychotherapy practice.
A large part of my practice is devoted to working with issues of identity and difference, and working with immigrants, People of Color (POC), and other communities who have a lived experience of dislocation and invisibility. As an Indian American immigrant, I have first-hand experience with issues related to dislocation and immigration and adjusting to new cultural norms, gender roles, and belief systems, which deeply impact identity, sense of security, and belonging. In my therapy practice, I bring a social justice perspective and sensibility in working with POC, immigrants and first-generation Americans, people who identify as bicultural or biracial, and who have gender expansive identities and relationship structures. I provide therapy in Hindi and English.
My recent clinical experience has been long-term depth work with young adults in graduate school or launching their careers, mid-career professionals, adult children of immigrant parents and interracial couples. Previously, I was in community mental health working with socioeconomically diverse families, children, teens and couples with complex trauma, medical illness, abuse and neglect, and issues related to immigration and acculturation. Also, I have experience working with children on-site in a school setting.
Credentials
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, California (AMFT#80582)
Certified in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley
M.A., Marriage and Family Therapy, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley
M.B.A., University of California, Davis
B.A., Psychology, University of California, Riverside
Affiliations:
The Psychotherapy Institute (TPI)
Northern California Society of Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP)
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
As a business professional my strengths revolved around building relationships, listening, identifying needs, and supporting individuals and groups to be more effective in their work and business. My experience managing people and expectations, delivering quality service and training has been an invaluable complement my psychotherapy practice.
A large part of my practice is devoted to working with issues of identity and difference, and working with immigrants, People of Color (POC), and other communities who have a lived experience of dislocation and invisibility. As an Indian American immigrant, I have first-hand experience with issues related to dislocation and immigration and adjusting to new cultural norms, gender roles, and belief systems, which deeply impact identity, sense of security, and belonging. In my therapy practice, I bring a social justice perspective and sensibility in working with POC, immigrants and first-generation Americans, people who identify as bicultural or biracial, and who have gender expansive identities and relationship structures. I provide therapy in Hindi and English.
My recent clinical experience has been long-term depth work with young adults in graduate school or launching their careers, mid-career professionals, adult children of immigrant parents and interracial couples. Previously, I was in community mental health working with socioeconomically diverse families, children, teens and couples with complex trauma, medical illness, abuse and neglect, and issues related to immigration and acculturation. Also, I have experience working with children on-site in a school setting.
Credentials
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, California (AMFT#80582)
Certified in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley
M.A., Marriage and Family Therapy, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley
M.B.A., University of California, Davis
B.A., Psychology, University of California, Riverside
Affiliations:
The Psychotherapy Institute (TPI)
Northern California Society of Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP)
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
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Phone: 510.629.0131
Address: 2127 Ashby Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705 ©2014-2019 Kavita Comoglio All rights reserved |
Individual and relationship psychotherapy in Berkeley
Kavita Comoglio, Associate Marriage & Family Therapist Supervised by Leslie C. Bell, PhD, LCSW |