Nandini Malhotra
Mental Health Counselor
Nandini specializes in navigating culture & identity work with a focus on enhancing relational harmony. Her work fosters aligned change and relational evolution.
All of me welcomes all of you,
with love
Everyone has an abundant reservoir of love. Oftentimes, our access to this love is obscured by the wear and tear of life and the defenses we create to survive in response. Nandini’s work is grounded in facilitating a homecoming to this reservoir for individuals and couples as they develop greater clarity, compassion, and agency.
Nandini operates from a relational framework, utilizing psychodynamic inquiry, narrative reframing, IFS-informed parts work, contemplative psychotherapy, and AEDP.
Therapy with Nandini moves you towards a felt sense of homecoming: to owning your voice, expanding your wants, and embracing love without performing or shrinking to earn it. Her clients experience the freedom to be seen, and steadiness to know they are not too much. With Nandini it’s about choosing belonging and expanding.
At the heart of this work is her expertise in the mind, body, and gut connection. Her somatic and contemplative approach honors what your body has carried long before words could name it, and supports clients in rebuilding trust with themselves from the inside out.
By seeking therapy you are already choosing yourself.
“Together we can explore, define, and move toward what a meaningful life looks like for you. I’m here when you are ready.” - Nandini
“Each wave is born and is going to die, but the water is free from birth and death”- Thich Nhat Hanh
You’re here because you want therapy that:
Moves efficiently and delivers meaningful, lasting results
Blends experiential work with evidence-based precision
Interrupts the patterns that keep you stuck, with care and clarity
Facilitates breakthroughs you can feel in real time
Offers a grounded, secure relationship where real change becomes possible
Expands your capacity for intimacy, confidence, and self-trust
Rates
Weekly Rate:
$200 | Individual Session
$225 | Couples Session
Our services are out‑of‑network with insurance, but many clients receive reimbursement. Use our insurance calculator to check your benefits.
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FAQs
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We are an out-of-network practice and do not accept insurance directly. We provide services to help clients submit for out-of-network- insurance reimbursement. Check your reimbursement rate here
Sliding scale availability is limited and based on need.
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We work with clients across New York State and offer both virtual and in-person therapy
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A strong fit often feels like a balance of safety and movement: you feel respected and understood, while also being invited into deeper honesty, reflection, and growth. Over time, therapy should feel like a space where more of you can show up, and where the relationship itself helps you move toward meaningful change.
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Healing doesn’t always come in big, sweeping moments. Often, it comes in the small, everyday moments: pausing before reacting, naming a feeling more clearly, honoring a boundary, or making a choice that feels more aligned. We will also look for the presence of new capacity: more self-trust, more emotional range, more honesty, more steadiness, and more freedom to choose differently.