About

As an educator, counselor, and advocate in the nonprofit sector and at-risk/alternative education system, Dr. Rajan spent over 20 years working with child, adolescent, and adult survivors of complex trauma (physical, sexual, medical, and psychological). In clinical settings, she has done psychotherapy work and assessment work with survivors of complex trauma for 13 years. Dr. Rajan has spent her entire career working in diverse cultural and socio-economic communities in California and India. In the private practice setting, Dr. Rajan works with a diverse spectrum of clients of different ages and backgrounds, all with a wide range of clinical issues including: acute anxiety, depression, PTSD, personality disorders, learning disabilities, working with the LGBTQIA community, transitioning and related identity issues, grief and loss, as well as artists, those in the entertainment industry, people facing career or other life transitions, couples and individuals seeking help with dating and relationship issues, sexual issues, or problems stemming from divorce, and immigrant/first generation individuals and couples working through cultural assimilation and identity issues. At a broader level, Dr. Rajan has also been working with the L.A. City Attorneys’ Office’s Community Visions in Conversation (CVC) restorative justice program, towards creating dialogue around painful issues like racism and police brutality, and affecting community healing and change after the protests around George Floyd’s murder in 2020. Though she primarily works from a psychodynamic orientation, Dr. Rajan’s approach to therapy is eclectic, in that she draws from a wide range of therapeutic modalities in treatment including: mindfulness practice, cognitive behavioral therapy, EFT techniques, trauma focused CBT, family systems, various expressive arts and play therapies (art, play, narrative, and narra-drama), and somatic/mind-body techniques.