Dr. Uma Subbiah
Compassionate psychologist for practical family support
- Credentials
- OH Psychologist P.5530, IL Psychologist 071007510
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio, Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Uma
Dr. Uma Subbiah is a clinical psychologist licensed in Ohio and Illinois who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship problems, and parenting concerns. She has more than 22 years of experience and speaks English.
Her approach is warm and respectful, and she focuses on building a practical working relationship with each person she sees. She uses straightforward methods to address issues like substance use, mood disorders, bipolar symptoms, grief, and intimacy-related struggles.
Background and approach
She also helps with sleep and eating concerns, anger, ADHD, coping with life changes, and career questions. Her work includes attention to multicultural concerns, immigration-related stress, and challenges faced by veterans and armed forces members. Dr.
Subbiah draws from several evidence-based approaches. She uses client-centered listening to understand what matters most to the person. She applies cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Mindfulness tools are offered to reduce stress and improve focus. In sessions she may also use motivational interviewing to support readiness for change and solution-focused ideas to set concrete goals. Those methods are adapted to each person’s needs and preferences rather than applied the same way to everyone.
Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Cost varies by location and is billed through a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Subbiah commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered therapy in her online practice. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and making decisions together, so the work follows what matters most to the person.She also brings mindfulness techniques into sessions to help with stress, sleep, and attention. Mindfulness involves simple practices to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without judgment and can be useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then adjust methods over time to fit the person’s needs.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep working on problems from different places. Licensed professionals can use these tools to deliver the same methods described above while adapting pacing and exercises to the online setting.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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