Psychotherapist · Writer · Speaker · Perinatal Specialist
Welcome
I'm Divya (she/her). I am a South Asian-American psychotherapist with a public health background who specializes in perinatal mental health, trauma, and the life transitions related to pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting. I am particularly passionate about exploring how race, culture, cultural trauma, and identity influence our journeys into and through parenthood. As a therapist, I enjoy holding space for folks who identify as people of color, multi-racial, and/or as first- and second-generation immigrants as they navigate the transition to parenthood and throughout the parenting journey. As a child of immigrants and a parent of two, I am personally familiar with how cultural narratives can impact our view of ourselves, our choices, our relationships, our boundaries, and our parenting.
Before becoming a therapist, my work focused on connecting clinical services with public health by addressing unmet needs in direct perinatal mental healthcare and the structure and delivery of perinatal support services. Currently, I participate in initiatives to improve perinatal mental health services and systems of care at both the state and national levels.
Visibility and representation matter, and I believe that mental health support should reflect and integrate experiences with race, culture, racism, and other oppressions so that folks from diverse and marginalized backgrounds can utilize psychotherapy in a way that is meaningful, helpful, and appropriate. I believe that it makes a difference when your therapist looks like you and you don't have to explain every detail about how you walk through the world.
I bring a fresh voice, honesty, and humor to my work, and I want my clients to feel seen, heard, and validated.
Before becoming a therapist, my work focused on connecting clinical services with public health by addressing unmet needs in direct perinatal mental healthcare and the structure and delivery of perinatal support services. Currently, I participate in initiatives to improve perinatal mental health services and systems of care at both the state and national levels.
Visibility and representation matter, and I believe that mental health support should reflect and integrate experiences with race, culture, racism, and other oppressions so that folks from diverse and marginalized backgrounds can utilize psychotherapy in a way that is meaningful, helpful, and appropriate. I believe that it makes a difference when your therapist looks like you and you don't have to explain every detail about how you walk through the world.
I bring a fresh voice, honesty, and humor to my work, and I want my clients to feel seen, heard, and validated.
"Divya Kumar is precisely the person you want to talk to about life's trickiest topics. She is experienced, compassionate, and has a sense of humor that draws you right in and shows you she really "gets it". I've personally left every conversation with Divya feeling better about myself and my circumstances, and based on the overwhelmingly positive reaction from Tinyhood users, I know others share my sentiment. Divya is a true, true gift." - Liz Breen, VP of Creative Development, Tinyhood