Therapist profile
Poonam Thadani, LMFT
California
LMFT - Relationships and Codependency
Continue with PoonamWhere Poonam stands
- Credentials
- LMFT
- License
- LMFT, California / 157374
- NPI
- 1457239667
- Experience
- 4 years
- Languages
- English, Hindi
- Location
- California
About
- Attachment-based work
- Cognitive behavioral tools
- Emotion-focused methods
About Poonam
Poonam Thadani is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with four years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. She lists codependency and attachment issues among her focus areas and helps people who feel stuck putting others first or losing themselves in relationships.
In sessions she takes an integrative approach that combines practical tools and reflective conversation. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful patterns and emotionally focused ideas to look at how closeness and distance get handled in relationships. She also draws on attachment-based thinking to notice early relationship patterns that still influence current behavior.
Therapy with her involves talking through current problems, recognizing behavior that keeps people stuck, and trying small, concrete changes between sessions. She encourages exploring feelings and beliefs that underlie people-pleasing, guilt, or chronic caretaking. Sessions can include skill practice such as boundary-setting, communication rehearsals, and thought-challenging exercises.
Poonam works in English and Hindi and practices in California as an LMFT. She has experience with caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, dependent personality traits, and issues tied to family of origin and separation. She also addresses infidelity, forgiveness, shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose.
If someone wants to begin, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session. Costs vary by location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How sessions work
Approach and how online sessions work
She blends attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques to address how relationships shape current behavior and to change unhelpful thinking and routines. Attachment-based work looks at early patterns of connection and how they show up now, which can help with codependency and fears about closeness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and practicing small, concrete changes to alter feelings and outcomes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That may mean trying a couple of ways of working and adjusting as progress is made.
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy around work or family time, cut travel, and allow shorter check-ins when life is busy. They also let people choose quieter surroundings, avoid being on camera, or use lower bandwidth when needed. The therapist will discuss practical arrangements and pacing during the first appointment so sessions fit into everyday life.
Areas of focus
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
4+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English, Hindi
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Can she help with people-pleasing?
Yes. She lists codependency and issues like guilt and low self-esteem among her focus areas and works on patterns that lead to people-pleasing.
What is her general therapy style?
She uses an integrative, practical style combining talk, behavioral work, and emotion-focused techniques to notice and change repetitive patterns.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has four years of professional experience as an LMFT working with adults on stress, anxiety, relationships, and life transitions.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is a California LMFT and provides services from that state.
Does she offer sessions in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English and Hindi.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions scheduled and paid?
Costs vary with location; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
Use 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.