Hi I’m Kony, and I’m excited to meet you!

With a background in neuroscience and psychobiology, I help you make sense of the why behind how we react to stress and help you get more comfortable with your brain, body, and emotions. I also pull from my lived experience as a second generation Indian (Bengali) immigrant to help you find and utilize the strengths in your culture while holding less tightly to the expectations that hurt you. I received my Master of Social Welfare degree from UCLA and have mostly grown up in SoCal. Some of my hobbies are enjoying dramatic music, exploring information rabbit holes or listening to people explain their passions, and dopamine dressing. I love learning about different fandoms and subcultures and fields of study.

I have experience working with neurodiverse individuals (ADHD, Autism, and more), people navigating identity shifts or life transitions, and those struggling with anxieties, depression, trauma, grief and loss, disordered eating and body image, behavioral addictions, and shame. I also support families and partnerships working through strained communication and breakdowns in connection.

I’m here to help anyone who needs a safe space to just be themselves, or explore who that even is in an awkwardness-normalized, judgement-free zone where I always remember we’re both human. We’ll work together to build off your strengths, challenge limiting beliefs and rules that aren’t serving you, and break free from the cycles you’re tired of. 

We can start wherever you’re stuck right now, whether that’s a place of overwhelm, shifting identity/roles, or having an idea of what you need but not how to want it. I’m not disappointed if you’re not excited for change. Therapy with me is collaborative, with plenty of room for humor, ambivalence, and works in progress.

Autism, ADHD Coaching / Executive Functioning Coaching + Therapy

If you’d like to focus on practical life skills, accountability and guidance on the path to achieving specific personal or professional goals, and exploring ways to adjust your environment to accommodate your needs, coaching can help. I work with neurodivergent clients, whether recently diagnosed or long-aware, who often feel overwhelmed, misunderstood, or stuck trying to meet expectations that don’t match how their brain works. Many are exploring what it means to be autistic, ADHD, or both, and navigating the grief, relief, and identity shifts that come with that. In coaching, you don’t need a diagnosis to take action about the frustrations and stress your time management, impulse control, or sensory processing struggles are causing you. New environments or roles, aging, and experiencing depression are a few things that can amplify executive functioning struggles, and therapy may be a better fit for you if you’d like to include processing past experiences or addressing mental health conditions. 

I’ve worked with individuals of all ages with neurodevelopmental differences and their families and can provide a validating, neurodiversity-affirming space where we can explore sustainable strategies, accommodations, and self-understanding. Together, we unlearn shame, build confidence, and center your strengths—helping you live more authentically and find your groove in a world that has perhaps sometimes felt unrelentingly overwhelming or determined to misunderstand you.

Eating Disorders & Body Image

There is no specific way someone must look to be experiencing disordered eating or negative body image. In some cultures (ethnic/familial, sports/dance, vocational), it is the way of life and focus of conversations and scrutiny. Struggles with eating and body image are often about so much more than food—they’re tied to identity, control, shame, and survival. I support clients in untangling those layers with compassion, curiosity, and a deep understanding of how our brains and bodies respond to stress and trauma. Drawing from my background in neuroscience, intersectionality, relational work, and experience in residential  and inpatient eating disorder treatment, I help people reconnect with themselves, challenge harmful patterns, and build a relationship with their body that feels safer, more honest, and more their own.