PREET CHOWDHARY, MA, LMHC, NCC
Senior Staff Therapist | Licensed Mental Health Counselor (she/her/hers)
Preet is a psychotherapist and board-certified mental health counselor in New York State, providing individual therapy to adults at Insight & Action Therapy in New York City. She holds a Master's degree in Applied Psychology from New York University and is an alumna of The New School.
Preet works with adults from all backgrounds and all are genuinely welcome. Many of the people she sees are thoughtful, self-aware individuals who appear to have it together from the outside. They function well at work, show up for the people in their lives, and manage their responsibilities. And yet privately, they feel anxious, overextended, lonely, or disconnected. They're not sure where they belong, or who they're becoming as life continues to shift around them. Some are burned out from holding everything together for so long. Others are in the middle of a significant life change and find themselves questioning their sense of self in ways they didn't anticipate.
If any of that sounds familiar, you're not alone — and you don't have to keep carrying it by yourself.
Preet offers a safe, non-judgmental space where you can feel genuinely seen, understood, and free to be yourself. No perfect words required. No clear starting point needed. Sessions begin with whatever feels most present for you, and the work unfolds from there.
Individual Therapy for Anxiety, Depression, and Burnout in New York City
Preet works with adults navigating a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, burnout, work stress, and emotional exhaustion. She has particular experience supporting high-functioning individuals whose inner experience doesn't match how they appear to the world — people who are doing everything right and still not feeling okay. Her approach helps clients move beyond simply understanding what's happening and toward actually feeling the change in their bodies, relationships, and daily lives.
Therapy for Identity, Self-Worth, and Life Transitions in New York City
Questions of identity — who we are, who we're becoming, and where we belong — are at the heart of much of Preet's clinical work. She supports clients working through self-worth and self-esteem concerns, major life transitions, career changes, relationship shifts, and the particular disorientation that can come when the life you've built no longer feels like it fits. She works with adults at all stages of life who are in the process of redefining themselves and searching for a more grounded, authentic way of moving through the world.
Therapy for Grief, Relationship Concerns, and Family Conflict in New York City
Preet supports clients navigating grief and loss, dating and relationship concerns, family conflict, and the complex emotional terrain of significant interpersonal change. She helps clients identify the patterns that show up across their relationships — the ways early experiences, attachment styles, and core beliefs quietly shape how they connect with others — and develop new, more fulfilling ways of relating.
ADHD Therapy and Support for Neurodivergent Adults in New York City
Preet works with adults with ADHD and supports clients navigating the emotional and relational dimensions of neurodivergence — including self-worth, identity, work stress, and the exhaustion of operating within systems not designed with them in mind.
Culturally-Informed and Trauma-Informed Therapy in New York City
Preet is deeply committed to providing culturally-informed and trauma-informed care. She works with adults from diverse cultural, ethnic, and international backgrounds and understands that identity, culture, and lived experience are not peripheral to mental health — they are central to it. All backgrounds, identities, and experiences are welcomed and honored in her practice.
Education and Professional Background
Preet holds a Master's degree in Applied Psychology from New York University and is an alumna of The New School. She is a board certified mental health counselor in New York State, a credential that reflects advanced clinical training and a demonstrated commitment to the highest standards of mental health care.
Preet's therapeutic approach is integrative, blending psychodynamic, trauma-informed, culturally-informed, and somatic therapies into a framework that is always tailored to the individual client. She holds a holistic perspective — seeing each person as a complete individual with unique needs, experiences, intersecting identities, and inner wisdom — rather than reducing clients to a diagnosis or a checklist of symptoms.
At the core of her psychodynamic work is a focus on uncovering the patterns, emotional blocks, limiting beliefs, and early relational experiences that quietly shape how we think, feel, and move through the world. Somatic therapy adds another dimension, helping clients connect with what their bodies are carrying and move toward change that is felt as much as it is understood — because insight alone isn't always enough.
Therapy with Preet is collaborative and responsive. She listens closely and attentively, following what each client needs at each stage of the work. When helpful, she will gently challenge the patterns that keep clients stuck — not to push, but to open up new possibilities. Her goal is for every client to leave each session feeling more grounded, more self-aware, and a little less alone in what they're carrying.
