About Gagan
Dr. Gagan Luthra is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and Certified Social Worker (CSW) based in New Jersey. She brings 38 years of clinical experience to sessions and speaks English, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu.
She uses well-established, practical approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and relationship concerns. Sessions often focus on skills to handle strong emotions, improve communication, and reduce unhelpful patterns in daily life. Dr.
Luthra has long experience working with trauma, grief, intimacy and family-related challenges.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing career stress, sleep and eating issues, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and other mood concerns. Her work includes attention to attachment and relationship patterns that affect safety and closeness. Her style is collaborative and direct.
She aims to offer clear options during a session so people leave with usable steps. She has used brief therapy formats when appropriate, typically eight to twelve sessions for targeted problems like grief, anger management, or posttraumatic concerns. Therapy is offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
Dr. Luthra also accepts international clients and adapts her approach to each person’s language and situation.
Practical therapy approaches delivered online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationship patterns shape feelings and behavior; it helps people understand connection, trust, and closeness in current relationships. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and the person's own goals, creating space to talk through problems and decide what changes feel right. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches straightforward skills to notice thoughts and try different behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and ease mood symptoms.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to the client's goals, combining listening, insight, and practical skills. The process is collaborative and adjusted over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions use lower bandwidth for a quicker check-in, and text or chat can be useful for short updates or when typing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while maintaining continuity of care.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu