About Aakanksha
Aakanksha Punj is a licensed professional counselor with six years of clinical practice based in Colorado. She combines a direct and warm manner to help people who feel overwhelmed, exhausted, or stuck despite outward success. Her background as a former Division I athlete and an immigrant informs how she understands pressure, performance, and big life changes.
She commonly helps people managing stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and career challenges.
Background and approach
Aakanksha also addresses issues related to adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, dependency traits, and substance or process addictions. She works with those facing guilt, shame, immigration questions, and the navigation of young adult or women-specific concerns. In sessions she looks for patterns that keep someone stuck and then practices new ways to respond.
She uses plain language and practical skills to build emotional regulation and coping strategies. Conversations are collaborative and focused on concrete steps that feel achievable between meetings. Aakanksha tailors evidence-based therapeutic techniques to each person’s needs rather than using a single formula.
She aims to help clients reconnect with themselves and make changes that last beyond symptom relief. Her style balances empathy with clear guidance so people can move forward with more confidence. The counselor offers multiple online session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
People can expect straightforward feedback, skill-building, and a focus on real-world results.
Approaches and how online sessions work
Aakanksha uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and real-life application. One common approach she adapts is skill-based emotional regulation work, which teaches concrete strategies to manage strong feelings and reduce overwhelm. This helps people who struggle with anxiety, burnout, or reactive behaviors.She also draws on trauma-informed methods that help people process difficult experiences at a manageable pace. Those techniques aim to reduce the hold of past events and improve day-to-day functioning. When addiction or compulsive behaviors are central, she incorporates behavioral strategies that target triggers and develop alternative routines.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will help evaluate goals, personal preferences, and what feels most useful in early sessions. Together they will adjust methods over time so the work fits the client and their life demands.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical advantages. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, and live chat or text messaging can provide shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it possible to work on stress, anxiety, trauma recovery, addiction-related goals, and career concerns without traveling, and to schedule care around busy days.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Dependent personality
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Multicultural concerns
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English