Therapist profile
Dr. Gagan Luthra, LPC, CSW
New Jersey
Dr. Gagan Luthra - LPC, CSW, addictions and relationship concerns
Continue with GaganWhere Gagan stands
- Credentials
- LPC, CSW
- License
- LPC, New Jersey / 37PC00248000; CSW, New Jersey / 44SW00317400
- NPI
- 1508930991
- Experience
- 38 years
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
- Location
- New Jersey
About
- Addictions support
- Relationship work
- Attachment focus
About Gagan
Dr. Gagan Luthra is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Certified Social Worker (CSW) practicing in New Jersey. She brings 38 years of experience addressing stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, relationships, grief, and related concerns. Sessions are offered in English, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu, and international clients are accepted.
Dr. Luthra works from practical, evidence-informed approaches. She uses methods that focus on attachment, emotions, and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In sessions she talks with people about what is happening now and what patterns repeat in relationships. This includes issues like codependency, boundary struggles, and problems tied to caregiving or family dynamics.
Her background includes long-term work in psychiatry and addictions and leadership roles in hospital settings. That experience shaped how she approaches complicated or overlapping problems, for example addiction plus mood or trauma-related symptoms. She has used brief therapy models for time-limited concerns such as grief, anger management, and stress.
She has supported people from the LGBT community and has worked with relationship questions and school-related concerns connected to family situations. She also has experience with veterans and trauma-related issues and with adolescent-focused programs run for schools, while maintaining adult clinical practice.
In practical terms she discusses options for medication-assisted treatment and recovery models when addictions are involved. She offers a mix of conversational, skills-based, and emotion-focused work to help people get clearer about choices, set boundaries, and reduce harmful patterns.
How sessions work
Online sessions with an attachment and skills focus
Dr. Luthra commonly uses Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns influence current bonds and helps people notice repeating behaviors that harm their connections. Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding the person’s perspective so they can make clearer choices about relationships and boundaries. CBT identifies unhelpful thinking and teaches practical skills to change behaviors, manage anxiety, or reduce depressive patterns.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. She will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then try approaches that match those needs. Clients and therapist check in about what’s working and adjust the plan together.
The original biography lists text chat, phone calls, and video chats as communication options. Confirm the current session formats before booking to make sure they fit your routine. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, reduce travel time, and offer options if being on camera is difficult. These practical benefits help people maintain consistency while working on relationship patterns, boundaries, and addiction-related concerns.
Areas of focus
Areas of expertise
Also works with
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
38+ years
Listed in
New Jersey
Languages
English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, relationship and family concerns, grief, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, anger, low self-esteem, career stress, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and related matters including codependency.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her approach blends attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, CBT skills, DBT techniques, and emotionally-focused work to address thoughts, feelings, and relationship patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has 38 years of clinical experience, including leadership work in psychiatry and addictions within hospital settings.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
She is an LPC and a CSW licensed in New Jersey and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu.
Are international clients accepted?
Yes, she accepts international clients.
How are sessions billed and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.