Adithi Satavalli

Location: Yukon & Broadway, Virtual
Days and Hours:
- TBA
Practicum ends August 2026.

Bio

I am a body-inclusive student counsellor, currently completing my Master’s in Counselling Psychology, and practicing under the clinical supervision of a Registered Psychotherapist.

My goal as a therapist is to create a space where you don’t have to shrink yourself, over-explain, or pretend things are “fine.” You can show up with your confusion, your hopes, your heartbreak, your humour, and the parts of yourself you've never said out loud. We’ll take it one piece at a time, together.

Before stepping into counselling, my life revolved around navigating immigration transitions and managing the pressure to “build a future” while also figuring out who I was becoming. Moving across countries, adapting to unfamiliar systems, and rebuilding community taught me a lot about resilience, identity, and what it means to feel disconnected yet hopeful. These lived experiences deeply shape how I show up with clients today.

I work from a culturally aware, trauma-sensitive lens that honours the larger systems people are shaped by. I draw from Feminist therapy, Adlerian perspectives, and Systemic frameworks, approaches that help us look at your life story in context, understand the beliefs you’ve carried, and explore how relationships, culture, and environment shape your emotional world. At the heart of my work is a simple intention: to sit with people, listen deeply, and understand the story of their life. I believe healing isn’t about “fixing” yourself; it’s about understanding yourself with compassion.

A lot of my work centres around the core human themes we all navigate:

Identity, Culture & Migration: Being a bicultural person myself, I understand what it's like to exist in the spaces between, between cultures, between expectations, between who your family wants you to be and who you’re becoming. You might feel like you’re carrying multiple worlds on your shoulders, each with its own rules, values, and definitions of success.
- Together, we can explore who you are outside of pressure, perfectionism, and cultural narratives that were handed to you before you had the chance to choose for yourself. We can make room for your voice, your story, and your identity, exactly as it unfolds, without judgment or urgency. My goal is to help you build a sense of self that feels grounded, authentic, and wholly yours.

Relationships & Intimacy: If you're navigating with cultural expectations, long-distance stress, desire differences, shame around sexuality, or feeling “too much” in relationships, you’re not alone, and you don’t have to navigate it alone. I welcome conversations about sexual wellness, body image, relational wounds, and the emotional weight that comes with wanting closeness but feeling scared of losing it. This is also a space where you can talk openly about kink, consensual power-exchange dynamics, and diverse sexual expressions in a grounded, respectful, and non-judgmental way, while exploring how these experiences connect to your identity, boundaries, needs, and sense of safety within relationships.

My Lived Experience

My lived experience, growing up in India, navigating immigration on my own, moving across cultures, and witnessing different models of family systems and relationships, shapes the way I hold space as a therapist. I also know what it’s like to struggle with body image from a very young age and to carry those beliefs silently while trying to fit into different cultural ideals. These experiences have taught me the importance of compassion over criticism, understanding over assumptions, and curiosity over judgment.

All of this informs my commitment to culturally aware, warm, and honest care. In our work together, you don't have to perform, compare, or hold yourself to impossible standards. You don’t have to be perfect here; you just have to be you.

When I’m not in the therapy room, you’ll catch me indulging in my love of humour-binge-watching shows like The Office, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, or Parks and Recreation. I also chase spontaneous adventures, like a last-minute road trip or a cold plunge in the ocean during winter (yes, I’m that person). These moments keep me curious and playful.