Gita Seshadri

People come to Gita Seshadri carrying all kinds of weight — the slow erosion of a marriage, a teenager pulling away, grief that won’t move, a dependency that’s gotten harder to hide. Working from Sacramento and online with California clients, Dr. Seshadri is an LMFT who works with individuals, couples, and families navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, abuse, addiction, eating disorders, and the everyday fractures that build up in close relationships.

Much of her couples work centers on the specific pressures that pull partners apart — including the quiet friction of a phone that’s always present, a conversation that unravels over text, or a dinner table where two people are physically together but somewhere else entirely. She brings particular depth to intercultural and interracial couples and families, drawing on her own research and publications in cultural dynamics, power, and couple relationships.

Dr. Seshadri adapts her approach to the person and the problem, drawing from family systems, emotionally focused, cognitive behavioral, narrative, and mindfulness-based methods, among others. She also works with therapists seeking support, and with graduate students facing the particular pressures of academic life. Her aim is straightforward: that clients leave with greater self-awareness, stronger tools, and a clearer sense of what they want their relationships to look like.