Kaushiki Rao
Pre-Licensed Professional (she, her)
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Toronto, ON M6H
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Hello, and welcome. If you are here you may be seeking ways to cope with difficult things in your life — finding a way to be with uncertainty, sadness or pain; managing relationships or work; perhaps noticing feelings and thoughts that you may not even fully understand. The hard part of this work is seeing and holding what is inside of us, being with it, and perhaps making sense of it. The beautiful part of this work is gathering the hurtful bits and the joyful pieces and holding them all at the same time, together. I will not, and cannot, tell you how to be but I can create safety and openness with you.
We live within structural contexts (race, caste, capitalism to name a few) and I invite us to look at those contexts when we talk about the troubles you feel inside of you. As a racialized immigrant, I also have a sense of the dislocations embedded in migration. The space I offer recognizes that external contexts come to impact us from the inside.
I have 6 years of experience working as a queer/trans affirmative therapist in India, and my practice there continues remotely. I'm currently a student at the Toronto Institute for Relational Therapy. My work is feminist, relational, and embodied. If you think you'd like to work with me, I am open to working with you towards the intentions you set.
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Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $150
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
- Pay by ACH Bank transfer
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Kaushiki Rao
Pre-Licensed Professional
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Supervised by Jason Winkler (Ontario / 001637) Kaushiki Rao
- Membership with Ontario Society of Registered Psychotherapists 66665891
- Degree/Diploma from University of Chicago MA
- Attended The Toronto Institute for Relational Psychotherapy
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Kaushiki Rao
Pre-Licensed Professional
Specialties and Expertise
Expertise
- Anxiety
- Body Positivity
- Chronic Illness
- Depression
- Grief
- Life Transitions
- Open Relationships Non-Monogamy
- Self-Harming
- Sex-Positive, Kink Allied
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
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Kaushiki Rao
Pre-Licensed Professional
Client Focus
Age
Adults
Participants
Individuals
Communities
Non-Binary Allied ,
Queer Allied ,
Racial Justice Allied ,
Sex Worker Allied ,
Single Mother ,
Transgender Allied
I also speak
Kannada, Tamil, (a little) Hindi
Age
Adults
Participants
Individuals
Communities
Non-Binary Allied ,
Queer Allied ,
Racial Justice Allied ,
Sex Worker Allied ,
Single Mother ,
Transgender Allied
I also speak
Kannada, Tamil, (a little) Hindi
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Feminist
- Humanistic
- Person-Centered
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
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Kaushiki Rao
Pre-Licensed Professional
Location
Primary Location
Toronto, ON M6H
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Kaushiki Rao
Pre-Licensed Professional