About Gagan
Dr. Gagan Luthra is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and Certified Social Worker (CSW) with 38 years of experience. She practices from New Jersey and speaks English, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu.
Her work covers a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, relationship and family issues, grief, bipolar disorder, and ADHD. She combines attachment-based and client-centered ideas to help people understand patterns in relationships. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to tackle unhelpful thoughts and dialectical skills to manage intense feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps a person can use between meetings. Dr. Luthra has long experience in addiction-related work and offers approaches that may include medication-assisted treatment models and recovery planning when appropriate.
She uses shorter brief therapy plans for focused problems like grief, anger, or stress, typically over a series of sessions designed to produce clear next steps. LGBT-affirming care is part of her practice, and she has helped people address relationship tensions and related school concerns.
She also supports people coping with trauma, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping struggles, career transitions, and a wide range of personality and attachment difficulties. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. International clients may be supported.
New clients are matched through a short questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Dr. Luthra draws on attachment-based therapy to look at how close relationships shape feelings and behavior; this helps when relationship patterns cause stress or recurring conflict. She also uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person in front of her, so sessions follow each client’s pace and priorities. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small, practical changes that reduce symptoms over time.Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try an approach, and adjust as work progresses. That means sessions can shift between skill-focused work and deeper relationship exploration as needed.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video is useful for deeper therapeutic work. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and texting let people share thoughts in the moment or between sessions. These options help people access consistent care while balancing work, school, or family life.
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What this therapist 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
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