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About Me
I am a trauma-informed psychodynamic psychotherapist.
My approach is authentic, warm, curious, and respectful of your inherent wisdom. Somehow, you have found a way to survive in a world that can be very hard to live in. When we truly appreciate how resourceful you've been to get to this point, then "stuck" points can open up. You can feel less strain and internal conflict, and more of the peace and vitality that may have eluded you so far.
In each session, I bring my expertise as a therapist, and you bring your expertise as a person who has lived with yourself your whole life. It is the meeting of these two kinds of expertise that can produce profound and real change.
Deepa Ranganathan, LCSW
Education
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Master of Social Work, Smith College School for Social Work
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Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University
Clinical Training
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Two-Year Postgraduate Fellow, Program for Psychotherapy, Cambridge Health Alliance (MA)
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Postgraduate Fellow, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis
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Internal Family Systems (Level 1)
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Attachment-Focused EMDR (Level 3)
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Supervision Study Program, The Psychotherapy Institute (Berkeley)
Teaching
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Smith College School for Social Work (2016-2020)
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Supervising Faculty, The Psychotherapy Institute (Berkeley)
Presentations
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Caregiving as a Moral Act, Cambridge Health Alliance, 2015
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The Anxiety of Oppression, Harvard Medical School, 2017
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A Trauma-Informed Approach to Working with Internalized Oppression, Tufts University Counseling and Mental Health Service, 2018
I have advanced training in psychodynamic psychotherapy as well as training in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Attachment-Focused EMDR. Before starting my private practice, I worked for several years as a psychotherapist at Cambridge Health Alliance, a public safety net health system in Massachusetts that primarily serves a low-income population.
I have been an adjunct assistant professor at Smith College School for Social Work, teaching and offering consultation to students working toward a clinical master's degree. I currently supervise post-graduate clinical associates who are working toward licensure. To make sure that I am always developing my skills as a therapist, I regularly take courses, read clinical papers, and receive professional consultation.
I identify as a South Asian American cis woman and a child of immigrants. My experiences have taught me to bring a sociocultural, intergenerational lens to my work. This means I think our everyday struggles come not just from our direct experiences with the important people in our lives, but from our experiences with the bigger social systems in which we and our ancestors have lived. How have our interactions with these systems supported our health and the health of those around us? How have these interactions been a source of suffering? I find that considering these questions can bring a great deal of relief to people whose experiences of both power and oppression have played an important and sometimes unseen role in their struggles.