Hi there, I’m Nava Narayani.

I offer holistic mental health therapy for individuals, couples, and relationships.

What It's Like to Work With Me

~ My style is warm, direct, collaborative, and grounded. I tend to work well with people who want more than surface-level coping strategies and are ready to engage in deeper emotional and relational work. Therapy with me is not about judgment, perfection, or quick fixes. It is about increasing awareness, building emotional capacity, and creating meaningful change over time.

~ I believe human beings are whole-body processing systems, not just minds disconnected from emotions, relationships, or the nervous system. Together, we pay attention to how your internal system communicates through thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, impulses, body posture, attachment patterns, and relational dynamics.
In sessions, I often help clients slow down and notice what is happening underneath the surface — especially in moments of emotional flooding, shame, defensiveness, shutdown, disconnection, or vulnerability. I help clients better understand the connection between their emotional experiences, nervous systems, relationships, and deeper needs so they can respond to themselves and others with greater awareness and intention.

~ I also believe therapy should be both reflective and practical. Alongside deeper emotional work, I help clients stay connected to their goals, notice progress over time, and identify barriers that may be getting in the way of the changes they want to create.

~ I value authenticity, curiosity, emotional depth, accountability, and creating a therapeutic relationship where clients can feel both supported and gently challenged.

The Foundations of My Work

Relational & Attachment-Based

Our early relationships shape the ways we learn to connect, protect ourselves, handle conflict, express vulnerability, and experience closeness. I help clients identify the patterns that may no longer be serving them while building healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.

Somatic & Nervous System Aware

Emotional experiences do not live only in the mind. Anxiety, shutdown, overwhelm, hypervigilance, and emotional reactivity are often deeply connected to the nervous system and body. I incorporate nervous system awareness and embodiment into the therapy process to support deeper and more lasting change.

Depth-Oriented & Meaningful

Many of the people I work with are navigating identity shifts, grief, spiritual questions, life transitions, creative blocks, relationship uncertainty, or the feeling of outgrowing an old version of themselves. I welcome conversations around meaning, authenticity, purpose, intimacy, and becoming more fully yourself.

Trauma-Informed

Trauma can impact how we experience safety, trust, connection, boundaries, and emotional regulation long after painful experiences have ended. I strive to approach this work with care, collaboration, respect, and attention to pacing.

My Values

~ I believe emotional struggles do not happen in isolation. Culture, identity, family systems, trauma, attachment experiences, oppression, gender expectations, and relational environments all shape how we learn to survive, connect, and understand ourselves.

~ I strive to offer therapy that honors the complexity of each person’s lived experience rather than reducing people to labels or one-size-fits-all approaches.

~ I value emotional honesty, self-inquiry, accountability, compassion, relational integrity, and helping people build lives and relationships that feel more aligned, connected, and alive.

Influential Educational and Work Background

Life

MA from Naropa University

BA from SUNY New Paltz

Denver Family Institute

Relationship therapy trainings

Naropa University

EFT Externship

Moving to End Sexual Assault (MESA)

Private practice bodyworker

Awareness Shop, New Paltz, NY

Tami Kent

Somanada School of Tantra

Somananda School of Tantra

Tara Mandala

Sivananda Vedanta Yoga

Amy Colo, CPM, LMT

Devout student.

Clinical Mental Health with a concentration in Buddhist Psychology and Contemplative Psychotherapy

Healing and Performing Arts

Certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Psychobiological Approach to Couple's Therapy (PACT), Gottman Therapy, Relational Interplay

Meditation Instructor

Clinical Support Professional for Family Systems Course

Helper

Crisis Support Hotline

Thai Yoga, Ayurveda, Tantra

Reiki

Holistic Pelvic Health

Arvigio Womb Healing

Tantric trainings

Meditation Instructor

Volunteer

200hrs yoga instructor