I know what it feels like
to be the person who
feels everything too much.
I am Kavita, a BABCP-accredited CBT therapist specialising in anxiety, burnout and emotional exhaustion for people whose nervous systems are wired to process the world more deeply than most. I am also one of those people. This is not a specialism I arrived at through a textbook. It is one I arrived at through my own life.
A letter to the person
reading this
If you have found your way to this page, I suspect you have spent a long time wondering why ordinary life takes so much more out of you than it seems to for everyone else. Why you leave social situations exhausted. Why other people's moods land in you as if they were your own. Why you have been told, more times than you can count, that you are too sensitive.
I know that experience from the inside. I grew up feeling everything deeply, absorbing the atmosphere of every room I walked into, needing more time to recover from things that others seemed to shake off easily. For a long time, I did not have the language for it. I just knew I was wired differently, and that the world was not quite built for how I worked.
That philosophy is the foundation of everything I do. When you sit with me, I am not the expert on your experience. You are. My job is to bring the clinical knowledge, the structure and the tools. Your job is to bring the honesty. Together, we figure it out.
I want you to leave our work together understanding yourself well enough that you no longer need me. That is the goal. Not dependence, not indefinite management, but genuine clarity about who you are and how to live in a way that works for the nervous system you actually have.
I also work specifically with Asian clients navigating the particular weight of cultural expectations alongside their sensitivity. The pressure to be strong, to not show difficulty, to put family first regardless of the cost to yourself. These are real, and they intersect with high sensitivity in ways that most therapists are not equipped to hold. I am.
Why I understand
your experience
I have lived in Kenya, the Himalayas, Istanbul, Spain, Panama, England and Cyprus. As a child who moved countries and as an adult who moved again with a family of my own.
I know the specific exhaustion of landing somewhere new and having to read an entirely unfamiliar social landscape. The grief of leaving a community behind. The excitement that tips into overwhelm. The particular loneliness of being a sensitive person in a place where you have not yet found your people.
For highly sensitive people, moving countries is not just a logistical challenge. It is a full nervous system event. Every new environment requires recalibration: new social codes to read, new atmospheres to navigate, a new version of safety to build from scratch. Most therapists understand this conceptually. I understand it because I have lived it, repeatedly, as both child and adult.
I also understand the particular impact on HSP children navigating international moves. The way displacement amplifies sensitivity. The way a child who already feels everything more deeply can be profoundly affected by changes that adults consider manageable. This shapes how I work with adult clients who are processing their own childhood experiences of movement and dislocation.
If you are an expat or have lived across cultures, you do not need to explain the complexity of that experience to me. I already understand it. And if you are Asian navigating both cultural expectations and the experience of living internationally, that intersection is something I am particularly equipped to work with.
Why CBT, and why
adapted for you specifically
Before specialising in CBT, I worked with a neurofeedback technology company in the USA that helped people whose brains had been changed by trauma. It taught me something I have never forgotten: that the way we feel is not a character flaw. It is biology. And biology can change.
What drew me to CBT was its honesty. It is not the therapist interpreting you from above. It is two people working together systematically to understand what is actually happening and why. There is depth and rigour to it. Hypotheses are formed and tested. Nothing is guesswork. I find that deeply respectful of both the client and the process.
But standard CBT was not built for highly sensitive nervous systems. Applied generically, it can feel too fast, too focused on behavioural change before the deeper understanding is in place. What I do is CBT adapted for how sensitive people actually process and change. We work at a pace that allows real integration, not just symptom management.
The training behind
the work
I have been working in mental health since 2016. That includes roles in the NHS, private practice, and earlier work in neurofeedback technology with trauma clients in the USA.
My postgraduate training in High Intensity CBT gives me a clinical depth that most therapists in this space do not have. BABCP accreditation requires rigorous training, supervised practice and ongoing professional development. It is the highest standard in CBT in the UK.
I speak English, Gujarati and Hindi, and work with clients across the UK, Europe and worldwide.
What clients say about
working with Kavita
Kavita is the best therapist I have ever worked with. The therapy has been life changing. I can finally do what I need to do, consistently, without the weight of everything pulling me back.
You saved my life. I could not have got to this point without your help. I feel so much stronger and calmer. I did not know it was possible to feel this way.
Kavita helped me recover from burnout and generalised anxiety disorder. I have been able to go back to work. She really helped me with having a good self-care routine and being able to set boundaries. I loved my sessions even though sometimes they challenged me.
I cannot thank Kavita enough. The way I feel now compared to when we started is like night and day. I am actually feeling little to no overwhelm on a Monday morning, which is unbelievable.
If this feels like
the right fit
The first step is a free 15-minute call. No commitment, no forms, no pressure. Just a chance to talk and find out if we are the right fit before anything else.