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Tina Aggarwal MS MA LMFT#112064

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Tina is the founder of Survive 2 Thrive Therapy and is a Licensed Mental Health Professional in California, USA. Tina's journey in the mental health field started in 2010 after she decided to make a switch from working in a technology company in Silicon Valley to following her passion of helping people. Motivated by the experiences of her childhood growing up in India, she embarked on a path to become the best clinician helping people from diverse backgrounds. She has worked in various settings including community mental health, residential treatment center, Intensive Outpatient Programs and mental health tech companies. 

During the past decade or so, she not only honed her craft as a therapist but also started to lead teams of clinicians and provide leadership to clinics and centers. Simultaneously, she started training therapists at these companies in "Culturally Responsive Care" model becoming the Chair of the Diversity Committee at her most recent place of work where she was the Director of an Outpatient Center for high acuity clients dealing with mental health, addiction and trauma.

While Survive 2 Thrive was founded in 2020 during the peak of the pandemic to help Tina provide therapy to clients she could not serve through her day job, it is in 2024 that Survive 2 Thrive is now being reborn as a Woman-only practice focusing on the mental health and well-being of women from all walks of life. Tina realized that women need a safe and supportive environment to help them heal and step into their power.  To help women achieve this, Survive 2 Thrive focuses on three main areas of Women's mental health:

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  1.  Trauma (PTSD & CPTSD)   

  2. Relationships & Intimacy

  3. Health & Wellness                 

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Currently, Tina is an Adjunct Faculty at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco and is a Clinical Supervisor at the eClinic of Palo Alto University. Tina has a masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University as well as a masters degree in Management Science from Stanford University.

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Survive 2 Thrive Therapy Model

Trauma Responsive Care

While knowledge and awareness of trauma is a necessity in the field of mental health, in order to fully meet the needs of people who have experienced trauma and adversity, a more significant level of responsiveness to those needs must be achieved. Moving to implementing trauma-responsive practices is critical in providing mental health services, particularly to those from marginalized communities. Trauma-responsive lens is an approach that acknowledges the complex impact trauma has on the lives of individuals along with focusing on helping individuals heal from highly distressing events in their past using a lens that is not shaming or blaming. In other words, "It's not what's wrong with you. Rather, it is what happened to you that created the set of symptoms you are experiencing." To be truly Trauma-responsive, this approach needs to be utilized across all levels of organization and different systems.
Not everyone who experiences traumatic events develops a post traumatic response. However, for some people even when many years have passed after the event(s), they continue to struggle with symptoms. Using cutting edge trauma-responsive therapies can help clients overcome these symptoms and truly thrive.
Trauma changes the brain. Therefore, many trauma-focused therapies available today use a brain-based model.  Also, traumatic responses are often stored in the body. Thus the therapies used to treat trauma often use a mind body approach called somatic therapy. 

Gender Responsive
Care

Gender-responsive care recognizes the unique experiences and potential barriers to treatment access a client may experience due to their gender, gender identity, and gender-expression.
Women have been historically oppressed across cultures, races and countries for centuries. Women continue to be marginalized in all parts of the world today and face unique challenges that impact their mental health and well-being.
At Survive 2 Thrive, we work to create spaces and provide services to women only in order to focus on their needs specifically. Women often feel safer in a female-only environment rather than a co-ed one. Women also need specialized mental health care which focusses on needs such as perinatal mental health, sexual assault recovery, sexuality issues in a relationship etc. Keeping in mind the sensitivity of these women specific issues, we believe that providing gender-responsive care to all the clients who come to Survive 2 Thrive is essential. 

Culturally Responsive Care

Culture is present in all aspects of the therapy process, within all therapist–client relationships, and within the lived experiences and social contexts of both therapist and client. Thus it is essential that therapists working with clients especially from marginalized communities take an approach which involves being culturally curious, culturally humble and culturally sensitive to all their clients.
At Survive 2 Thrive we believe that working with clients to understand and explore their cultural identities along with how they are impacting their presenting concerns is essential to the values we hold. 
Also, cultural responsivity includes holding a social justice lens, which involves therapists, understanding and validating the impact of oppression on client's lives as well as being an advocate through the therapist's work.

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