Our Team
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Madhuri is an award winning and nationally recognized psychotherapist, public health epidemiologist and public speaker with over 13 years of experience working as a clinician. She has worked in almost every treatment setting possible prior to founding Thriving Mind, including emergency room, crisis response, outpatient community clinic, medical inpatient, and mobile psychiatry settings. These experiences have informed her clinical style with a keen ability to treat complex issues across the life cycle. At the national level, Madhuri is a widely respected leader advancing mental health equity in systems of care. She is a trauma specialist, and is trained in multiple modalities to address how complex trauma effects the life course, somatic experiencing, and interpersonal relationships. She is also highly trained in addressing identity and culture in the therapeutic alliance. She works with individuals, couples, and families. As the queer daughter of immigrants, she has devoted her life’s work to championing health equity for populations least reached by systems of care, honoring the legacy of many of her own ancestors and family members who lived with physical and mental illness and could not get help.
Specialties: Trauma and stressor-related disorders, LGBTQ-affirming therapy, BIPOC-affirming therapy, depression, anxiety, and adjustment disorders, crisis stabilization, grief, immigration/cultural assimilation, identity/stages of life, and family estrangement/stress.
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Paprika is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), who spent years working in social services for people in need prior to pursuing her social work degree. Her approach centers on being nonjudgmental, empathic, and human centered. She is LGBTQ+-affirming, kink- and body-positive, and disability-informed. She is trained in a range of modalities including CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and somatic therapy. She grounds work in a trauma-informed lens, and supports her clients in fostering healthy emotional regulation and resilience. Paprika effectively leverages her own lived experiences to create a supportive and relatable therapeutic space for people overcoming adversity. She graduated from CUNY-Hunter with her Master’s in Social Work in 2024.
Specialties: LGBTQ-affirming care; gender-affirming care; mood disorders; anxiety; substance misuse; identity formation; disability justice; sexuality, kink, and body affirming care, group therapy
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Wynter is a licensed Clinical Social Worker with nearly a decade of direct service experience. Wynter’s work is centered on helping individuals better understand their relationships, identity, history, and emotional experiences. Wynter has extensive experience working with adults living with HIV/AIDS, advocating for homeless queer youth in NYC, and working in supportive housing throughout NYC. These experiences helped cultivate a passion to address the injustices present in our healthcare systems and inspired Wynter to move towards clinical work with a perspective grounded in social justice. Wynter’s approach focuses on curiosity, warmth, and compassion to open a space where she can guide her patients through the intricate web of emotions without judgement. Wynter’s treatment is anchored around a deep respect for the complex intersection of identity while examining the impact societal marginalization has on the psyche. Wynter’s therapeutic approach is psychodynamic, relational and collaborative—positioning clients as experts in their own lives while offering guidance, support and advocacy. She specializes working with individuals on trauma and recovery, and combatting the on-set of depression. She also specializes in working with couples navigating identity and desire in their relationships. Wynter leads TMC’s Reproductive Trauma and Recovery Specialized program (inquire for more details)
Specialities: Trauma Recovery, Couples Therapy, Anxiety, Depression, Reproductive Trauma Recovery and Wellbeing, Life Transitions and Identity Formation
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Aashika is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) dedicated to working with individuals, couples, and families, with a particular passion for supporting underserved communities, immigrants, and couples and families of color. She brings compassion, cultural humility, and strong relationship-building skills to all her clients. She earned an MSW from the NYU Silver School of Social Work; her clinical training includes psychodynamic therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused CBT, and attachment-based approaches, giving her a flexible, evidence-based toolkit. Before entering clinical practice, she worked as a middle school teacher in Brooklyn. Her therapeutic experience includes supporting individuals, couples, and families navigating anxiety, relationship challenges, behavioral concerns, life transitions, and family stressors, with compassionate, collaborative care. As a first-generation South Asian American, she is passionate about serving immigrant and minority communities and integrating collectivist values into her therapeutic approach. She strives to create a space where clients can explore the intersection of culture, identity, family expectations, and relationships, and she enjoys helping couples and families navigate these dynamics while fostering deeper connection, understanding, and resilience.
Specialties: Cognitive behavioral therapy, depression, anxiety, couples therapy, family therapy, immigration/cultural assimilation, family stress, BIPOC-affirming therapy