Gunjani Patel-Oza
Compassionate, practical counseling for calm recovery
LPCC, LMHC California
- Experience
- 17 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Sleeping
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Gunjani
Gunjani Patel-Oza is a licensed professional counselor with a calm, practical style. She uses approaches like the Gottman Method and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, and relationship challenges.
Background and approach
She works from compassion and respect and focuses on simple, usable steps people can try between sessions. She emphasizes building clear goals and a plan together.
Sessions are tailored to each person's needs and strengths. That can mean coaching skills for work, tools to sleep better, or strategies for coping with major life changes.
Gunjani draws on Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused approaches when relationship patterns or past wounds show up. She helps people notice how old attachment habits affect current choices and offers ways to repair connection and reduce reactivity.
Her background includes 17 years of clinical experience and licenses as an LPCC and LMHC in California and Florida. That experience informs practical techniques for panic, phobias, postpartum depression, and trauma-related concerns without relying on jargon.
She also supports people facing guilt, shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose. Therapy sessions mix listening, gentle challenge, and concrete exercises that can be practiced outside session time.
Gunjani encourages a collaborative approach. She aims to make starting therapy feel manageable and to give people clear next steps as they work toward feeling more steady and connected.
Online approaches that support relationships and behavior change
Gottman Method focuses on practical skills for communication and connection. It emphasizes small behavior changes, better listening, and habits that reduce conflict and build trust in close relationships. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions because it targets avoidance and promotes meaningful action.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest which methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses to match what helps most.
Online therapy makes these methods easier to access through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skills practice and emotional work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, short coaching moments, or people who prefer writing. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit a busy life and different communication styles.
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Experience
17+ years
Licensed in
California, Florida
Languages
English