Isha Desai, LICSW (She/Her/Hers)
Psychotherapist at And Still We Rise, LLC, Ms. Isha Desai is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. She received her undergraduate degree in intensive psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and completed her master’s degree at Boston University, School of Social Work (BUSSW), with a trauma specialization. Ms. Desai is a Certified Trauma Research Foundation psychotherapist.
Ms. Desai strongly believes in using a collaborative therapeutic approach that aims to ‘meet you where you are at,’ and focuses on curiosity, liberation, play, and healing. She strives to discuss the various components of life that impact individuals on a mental, physical, and spiritual level, including relationships, cultural identities, intersectional identities, inequity, and other interpersonal, institutional, and systemic factors. She adopts a Liberation, Queer lens, and Racial Equity lens framework for her practice style.
Ms. Desai provides individual psychotherapy for presenting concerns including life transitions/adjustments, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, disordered eating, ADHD, and complex trauma. She is a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Liberation Health Model (LHM) certified clinician, that primarily uses intuitive approaches such as Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Narrative Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Components Based Psychotherapy (CBP), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and body-based healing. Ms. Desai is particularly passionate about addressing the role of cultural, systemic, and intergenerational trauma that impacts BIPOC, immigrant, and refugee populations, and is committed to reframing and de-stigmatizing mental health narratives within Asian communities.
Ms. Desai is fluent in English and Gujarati, and proficient in Hindi. She has experience working with ages as young as 5 years old to geriatric populations (65+ years old).
Ms. Desai enjoys cooking, traveling, dancing, and creating. She is a HUGE foodie!
Insurances Accepted:
Private Pay
BCBS
Optum
Harvard Pilgrim
Aetna
Tufts Commercial Plan
