Meet Surabhi Jagdish, M.A., Licensed Therapist.

Trauma Therapist, EMDR Therapist,

Depth Work Therapy and Gottman Couples Therapy

Direct, Compassionate, & Focused on Your Healing

Let’s Dive In

You’re ready to feel connected, unstuck, and genuinely happy in your life and relationships. It’s exhausting to always feel exhausted. You’ve done the work, taken the steps, and while you’ve made some progress, you still feel like you’re just short of where you truly want to be.

You’re burnt out from shrinking yourself so others can be comfortable. You crave joy, safety, and security — and deep down, you know you deserve it. It may feel out of reach, but you’re done settling. You want more.

This space is for you.

My Approach to Therapy

Working with me feels like having a grounded, no-fluff therapist who is both your biggest cheerleader and your compassionate challenger.

I'm here to help you navigate the rough spots, confront the patterns keeping you stuck, and support you in reclaiming balance. It’s a privilege when clients trust me with their stories — I honor that deeply. Therapy is courageous work, and I take your trust seriously.

Together, we’ll bridge the gap between the life you imagine and the life you’re living now. At your pace, we’ll gently (but clearly) challenge what’s keeping you from feeling confident in yourself and your relationships.

Context is key. You are a reflection of your experiences, culture, environments, and relationships. In our work together, we approach you through a culturally responsive, decolonized lens — one that respects and honors the complex systems that shape your life. We center how you had to navigate different worlds in all our work.

I often tell clients there’s nothing I haven’t heard before, because there’s no judgment in this space, ever.
There’s no guidebook for managing life, relationships, or cultural expectations. You’re learning as you go — and I’m here to help you build tools, not shame. Together we’ll strengthen your skills and help kick old patterns out the door.

Why Work With Me?

Let’s face it — quick fixes and surface-level advice are everywhere. They might feel good temporarily, but they rarely lead to lasting change.

That’s not how I work.

Here’s what you can expect:

  • Personalized care: I take time to understand your experiences and build tools that actually work for you — not a one-size-fits-all model.

  • Intentional progress: We move at a pace that feels right. I’ll support and challenge you, but you’re always in control.

  • Context, always: I won’t hand you homework without purpose. Everything we do has a “why” behind it.

  • Empowerment through awareness: Together, we’ll build insight into your patterns and experiences so you can create a life that feels like yours.

Relationships are at the heart of this work — I want you to feel safe, seen, and understood from our very first session.

What Our Work Looks Like

In our first session, we’ll start with your goals — whether that’s clarity around yourself, your partnership, or life direction. Not sure what your goals are yet? That’s okay. We’ll figure it out together. You’ll leave that first session with a clearer sense of where you’re headed.

We’ll explore:

  • The patterns that keep showing up

  • Emotions that feel too heavy to hold alone

  • Needs that have been neglected

  • Boundaries that need shaping

  • And the life you’re truly craving

Whether it’s past trauma, anxiety, or relationship challenges — this is a space to work through the hard stuff. My goal is to help you feel empowered, not overwhelmed — to help you respond, not just react.

Because I believe you are meant for joy — on your terms.

Clinical Experience

I’m always learning and educating myself to ensure I’m showing up for you with the best tools, knowledge, and care.

    • Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist- Supervisor: Texas #202339

    • Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist: Colorado #0002880

    • M.A. Marriage & Family Therapy: University of Houston- Clear Lake (2014)

  • Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

    Gottman Method Couples Therapy- Training Level 1

    Texas LMFT Supervisor

    EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Trained

Am I the therapist for you?

You are safe here

Our stories shape who we are and how we understand the world, and that can be a challenge sometimes shift. And I am passionate about helping you rewrite those stories to align with the life you desire.

I’ve committed my professional and personal growth to better understanding how our histories shape us and what power we have to renavigate to a place that was always meant for us.

I’ve been there myself. I understand the intensity of how relational trauma and culture clashes can impact us. And I believe that healing these stories and writing new ones is our birthright, and how we were truly meant to live.

Values & Guiding Principles

Trust & Safety: You are supported, unjudged, and validated here. This is your space.

Inclusivity & Kindness: Your identity has shaped every experience- and every one of those are supported here & navigated with kindness & awareness of the systems which influence you.

Intentionality & Thoughtfulness: I stay curious with you. I will encourage you to be insightful and shed light on the shadows in your life/relationships.

Wit & Humor: We have to laugh a little to heal a lot. I love anaologies.

Personally

Clients come to work with me because they know that I will support and challenge them to be their best selves. I’ve been described as someone who is authentic, spicy, & warm, and 100% non-judgmental. Therapist aren’t all the same. You won’t find me only nodding my head and asking you, ‘how do you feel?’ You’re looking for support and results, and head-nodding won’t get you there, and I get it.

Interested in my Modalities?

I take an integrative, evidence-based approach that blends:

✔ Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) – A body- based therapy that helps process deep beliefs about yourself, heal from strong memories (or trauma). We connect thoughts and feelings through somatic processing.

✔ Narrative Therapy – How you speak about you and your experiences shape how you feel. We work together to develop new stories defined by your terms & desires while holding onto the pieces important to you.

✔ Attachment-Based Therapy – Connecting the dots between how relationships with close family and friends impacted your relationship to yourself and others. We work to build secure, fulfilling relationships.

✔ Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) – Gently addressing the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors shaped by trauma, while building emotional regulation and coping skills.

✔ Liberation Psychology – Center your lived experience in the context of how oppressive systems shape the world. Acknowledging how systems can influence internalized cultural guilt, societal conditioning, and inherited shame can help us detangle what is yours to own and how to navigate these systems

There is no one-size fits all approach here. You and I will determine together what you need and how you want to get there.

Redefining the “Rules'“

You feel like you’ve followed all the rules, tried your best, and hoped that things would get better once you just got through the tough spot. Maybe you’ve been so driven that you’ve pushed through more times than you can count, just waiting for the relief to set in. And once that release hits, it feels like finally…until it inevitably goes back to feeling like nothing has changed.

I get it. I used to think that if I followed all the ‘rules,’ I’d be rewarded with the best things. Turns out, that’s a false reward system set up to help us stay on the track of least resistance for those around us, but it has nothing to do with what is actually good for us. The truth is, you weren’t meant for a conveyor belt life, you know how I know? Because you’re here, and you’ve already tried that, and it didn’t work.

It's never going to be about trying harder or improvement. You’re not broken; the system is, because it doesn’t support you.

If the doom and gloom shadow seem to be following you, and you’re tired of feeling like you’re just bouncing from hope to hope for relief, I’ve got your back.

Following the rules doesn’t get you to freedom. Recognizing what you need, learning to prioritize yourself, and strengthening that inner voice you’ve had to learn to shut down, that’s where the real freedom lies, and you can have that.

The rules weren’t built for a person like you. The rules weren’t meant for the kind of relationship you want- or the life you want.

Instead of scrambling to try and do it like everyone else. Let’s focus on harnessing your skills, increasing your self-awareness, and your natural ability to problem-solve. I undoubtedly believe that if you are ready to re-write ‘rules’ that benefit you, it won’t feel like you’re behind or doing it wrong.

In fact, that’ll be the thing of the past, and your focus will be on your joy.

Are you ready to “break the rules?”