

The Roots Beneath Attunigrate
Before licenses and degrees, there was simply a calling.
At sixteen, in Sri Lanka, I stepped into my first counseling certification. I sat in a room filled with adults, learning about mental health and emotional well-being long before it was a familiar conversation in my world. While others my age were deciding what to study, I already knew: I was here to hold space for healing.

That early passion carried me across oceans. I began my undergraduate studies in New Jersey, working alongside an art therapist and deepening my understanding of the human mind. Later, I moved to Florida for graduate school, training in high-acuity settings like psychiatric hospitals — spaces where care meets crisis, and where healing becomes both urgent and real.
Eventually, I found myself in Detroit, not just practicing therapy but building bridges between mental health and public service. Through Crisis Intervention Training, I partnered with the Detroit Police Department, piloting a program that offered in-the-field emotional support, meeting people in their most vulnerable, immediate moments. It was there I truly understood: healing isn’t theoretical. It’s relational, grounded, and deeply human.
All of this experience led me to create Nava Therapy, a space where my Eastern spiritual roots meet the grounding tools of Western psychology. In the beginning, it was just me holding sessions, building trust, and growing community. Over time, I connected with other clinicians who shared a vision for integrative, relational, and ethical care. Together, we’ve served over a thousand clients across trauma recovery, identity development, relationship healing, emotional regulation, disordered eating, addiction recovery, and beyond.
Beyond clinical work, I’ve supervised therapists, led teams, and offered workshops and talks for professionals, entrepreneurs, and organizations seeking to move from survival into sustainability. Whether speaking on burnout and embodiment or consulting on how emotional clarity can transform company culture, my mission remains the same: to create spaces where healing leads to embodied change.
This path is personal. It’s been shaped by cultures, communities, and lived experience as an immigrant, a woman of color, and a lifelong seeker of integration.
If something in this story resonates with you, whether you’re looking for care, collaboration, or simply a new kind of conversation, there’s space for you here.