Dr. Krishna Desai
My name is Krishna Desai, and I am a licensed psychologist (PhD, LP) and licensed specialist in school psychology (LSSP), based in Texas. I work with children as young as ten and their caregivers, adolescents, and adults, offering telehealth therapy and online counseling across approximately 42 states through my PSYPACT membership.
I have experience working within school systems as well as private practice settings, and that range has shaped my understanding of how culture, family, identity, and community intersect with mental health. I believe the systems we belong to shape us just as much as we shape them, and I aim to honor each client's lived experience, even when traditional therapy spaces overlook or minimize it.
As a South Asian psychologist, I specialize in complex trauma, grief and loss, anxiety, and depression, areas where people often feel most alone and least understood, with a particular focus on the pressures that come with living between two cultures. Healing, to me, isn't only about reducing symptoms. It's about understanding yourself more deeply, reconnecting with your values, and building a life that feels genuinely yours.
A Note on My Community Focus
I am especially passionate about working with South Asian clients. Navigating mental health as a South Asian person often means confronting generations of silence, the pressure of "model minority" expectations, immigration and acculturation stress, family enmeshment, and the grief of cultural displacement. These are not small things — and they deserve space in therapy.
I speak Gujarati and Hindi, and I understand the cultural context that shapes many of my clients' lives. You do not have to translate your world for me.
I also provide affirming, thoughtful care to LGBTQ+ individuals, people of color, and anyone who has felt like mainstream therapy wasn't quite made for them.