Anjali Gottipaty, B.S., Therapy Practicum Student Intern

Anjali Gottipaty (they/she) is a fourth-year Counseling Psychology doctoral student at Indiana University Bloomington. Over the past 2.5 years, they have provided therapy to adults in community and college counseling centers. They also spent three years post-undergraduate working with children, adolescents, and adults as a researcher in clinical research settings. Across these experiences, they have supported individuals in exploring, understanding, and loving parts of themselves that live with anxiety, depression, neurodevelopmental differences, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, personality disorders, relational conflict, and questions about their sexual being. 

In therapy, they seek to offer a nonjudgmental space where clients can trust that vulnerable aspects of themselves, their sexuality, and their desired forms of companionship will be met with curiosity and respect. Anjali believes this space can provide the freedom and empowerment to self-define rather than feel bound by rigid, prescriptive definitions of who they are or how they should be. They draw from parts work, meditative practices, emotion-focused approaches, somatic processing, liberatory practices, narrative approaches, interpersonal work, and arts-based processing. Their clinical interests include kink, trauma, race, intimacy and togetherness, consensual non-monogamy, and romantic partnership therapy. 

Anjali considers it an honor to be invited into each client’s therapeutic journey. They are excited and joyful to work alongside clients toward developing a more secure relationship with themselves and with others. 

Alongside their clinical training, Anjali is a doctoral researcher who has created, conducted, and presented several sexuality studies. Their research has explored topics including race-based kink, racial fetishization, and race and sexuality identity development. This work has deepened their understanding of how culture, race, stigma, identity, and interpersonal relationships shape sexual experiences. It informs the clinical resources and perspectives they bring to their work, particularly their understanding of how individual and social contexts interact to shape how we learn about ourselves and become who we are.