THERAPY GROUP STARTING ON OCTOBER 1ST 2026
Women’s Healing Circle, An 8-week in-person therapy group for women healing from complex trauma.
Empowering Women to Thrive Through Therapy
Survive 2 Thrive is a women’s mental health practice helping women heal from painful experiences from their past, build healthier relationships in the present, and navigate the mental health challenges throughout the reproductive lifecycle.
In-person therapy on the Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area and virtual therapy throughout California.
Book Your Free 20-Minute ConsultationWhat Can We Work On Together?
Women’s lives are complex. The issues that bring you into therapy are rarely separate from everything else you have experienced. Not only are the issues interconnected, the intersectionality of your identities can also create a unique set of problems that need to be understood within the context and culture of your lives.
Therefore, my work focuses on three deeply interconnected areas.
Trauma and Complex Trauma
Trauma can come from experiences we readily recognize as traumatic—abuse, sexual assault, violence, loss, or neglect. But it can also develop more quietly: growing up with an emotionally unavailable or unpredictable parent, learning to keep everyone happy, feeling responsible for other people’s emotions, living between cultures, or spending years believing that your own needs were somehow too much.
These experiences can continue to show up as anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, emotional flashbacks, difficulty trusting others, disconnection from your body, or a persistent feeling that you are never quite safe. Therapy can help you understand the survival strategies you developed, heal what still hurts, and create new ways of being that are no longer organized around the past.
Trauma doesn't live only in our thoughts and memories—it can also shape the nervous system, the body, and the protective parts of ourselves that developed to help us survive. My approach integrates somatic and nervous-system-based work, IFS-informed parts work, Brainspotting, and, when appropriate, low dose Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). Together, these approaches allow us to work with experiences that may be difficult to reach through words alone, helping you process what you've carried while building greater safety, connection, and choice in the present.
Relationships & Intimacy
The early relationships we grow up with, especially with our parents or caregivers, often become the blueprint for the relationships we create as adults.
Depending on your early childhood experiences, you may find yourself choosing emotionally unavailable partners, struggling to set boundaries, avoiding conflict, taking responsibility for everyone else’s feelings, or wondering why intimacy feels so complicated. Perhaps you're navigating marriage, dating, divorce, betrayal, sexuality, family conflict, or the lasting impact of growing up with emotionally immature parents.
Using an attachment-based and relational approach, I help you understand the patterns you learned in connection with others and how they may be showing up in your relationships today. Our work may include healing relational trauma, nervous-system co-regulation, and reparenting the inner child—helping you develop a greater sense of safety within yourself so you can build relationships rooted in connection, authenticity, healthy boundaries, and choice.
Maternal and Menopausal Mental Health
Being a woman comes with emotional, relational, cultural, and physical transitions that can profoundly affect mental health.
I work with women navigating motherhood, fertility and infertility, pregnancy loss, body image, chronic health conditions, hormonal changes, caregiving, neurodivergence, burnout, sexuality, identity, and the transition through perimenopause and menopause.
Perinatal Mental Health Support
Pregnancy, birth, and the transition to parenthood can bring profound emotional and identity shifts alongside experiences of anxiety, depression, grief, overwhelm, or unexpected resurfacing of earlier trauma. I offer trauma-responsive, attachment-based perinatal therapy, drawing on nervous-system regulation, somatic work, and IFS-informed parts work to support clients through pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, birth trauma, fertility challenges, and pregnancy loss. When needed, I also collaborate with OB/GYNs, psychiatrists, and other perinatal providers so that emotional, physical, and medical needs can be supported together. My goal is to create space not only for the wellbeing of the baby or family, but for the person going through this enormous transition—their mental health, relationships, identity, and sense of self.
Menopausal Mental Health Support
The transition through perimenopause and menopause can affect far more than the body—it can influence mood, anxiety, sleep, relationships, sexuality, cognition, and your sense of self. I believe mental health care is one part of supporting this transition, not the whole picture. When helpful, I can support you in identifying qualified medical providers who can evaluate options such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and collaborate with your healthcare team—with your consent—to help create more integrated care. We can also explore how evidence-informed lifestyle supports such as nutrition, movement, sleep, stress regulation, and appropriate supplements discussed with your medical providers fit into your overall wellbeing. The goal is to understand you as a whole person—recognizing the important interplay between hormones, physical health, emotional wellbeing, relationships, and the life transition itself.
A Space to Feel Safe. A Place to Go Deeper.
You don't need to arrive knowing exactly where to begin. We start with where you are—and build from there.
Therapy with me takes place in a warm, supportive space designed to help you slow down, feel grounded, and bring your whole self into the room. We may begin by talking about what is happening in your life today—your relationships, emotions, health, identity, or a pattern you can't seem to change—and gradually explore what may be underneath it.
As our work deepens, we can move beyond insight alone. Depending on what you need, I integrate somatic and nervous-system work, IFS-informed parts work, Brainspotting, and other trauma-responsive approaches to help access experiences and patterns that aren't always reachable through words.
For clients who may benefit from an even deeper experiential approach, I also offer low dose Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) in collaboration with an appropriate medical provider. KAP can create another pathway for carefully supported therapeutic exploration when it is clinically appropriate for you.
There is no predetermined path and no pressure to go deeper before you're ready. We work collaboratively, building safety and resources as we go.
The goal isn't simply to understand your story. It's to help you experience healing—in your mind, your body, your relationships, and the way you move through your life.
A LITTLE ABOUT ME
Tina Aggarwal, MS, MA, LMFT
I’m Tina Aggarwal, LMFT, founder of Survive 2 Thrive Therapy, a place for women to heal.
For more than a decade, I have worked with people healing from trauma across community mental health, residential and intensive treatment, private practice, and mental health organizations.
Today, my clinical practice is dedicated to women.
Alongside my work as a therapist, I teach graduate-level trauma therapy and provide clinical supervision and consultation to other therapists. My work as an educator keeps me deeply connected to the evolving science of trauma, attachment, relationships, and healing.
But when you walk into my therapy room, my role isn't to be the expert on your life. You are.
My job is to help you understand your story, recognize the patterns that once helped you survive, and support you as you decide what you want to carry forward—and what you are ready to leave behind.
Are You a Therapist?
My work with clinicians is centered more specifically on my identity as a trauma therapist, educator, and supervisor.
I offer trauma consultation, clinical supervision, trainings, and educational resources for therapists who want to deepen their understanding of complex trauma through relational, attachment-based, somatic, culturally responsive, and liberatory frameworks.
You Don’t Have to Have It All Figured Out. You only have to know that something needs to change.
I offer a free 20-minute consultation so we can talk about what is bringing you to therapy, what you are looking for, and whether working together feels like the right fit.
You can also learn more about the services I offer, by visiting the “Clients Page”
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive: and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.— Maya Angelou