Divya Sivasankaran, Therapy Clinician

Divya Sivasankaran is a therapist at LifeStance Health who helps patients across New Jersey navigate life’s challenges with compassion, clarity, and evidence-based care. She creates a grounded therapeutic space where individuals, teens, and adults can explore their experiences, develop practical skills, and move toward meaningful change. Serving clients throughout New Jersey, she supports emotional, relational, and life-stage concerns with a warm and collaborative style. At LifeStance Health, Divya provides individual and couples therapy for adolescents, teens, adults, and seniors. She is skilled in treating anxiety, depression, and ADHD, blending clinical expertise with genuine empathy to help clients understand their symptoms and develop strategies that support everyday well-being. Divya is particularly passionate about guiding clients through life transitions, including midlife and later-life changes, navigating relationship challenges, and managing trauma-related concerns. She approaches these areas with sensitivity and respect, helping clients build resilience, strengthen their sense of identity, and regain stability in difficult moments. Her therapeutic work incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, along with mindfulness-based practices. She also integrates parenting-focused strategies when appropriate and offers additional interventions tailored to each client’s needs. Outside of her clinical work, Divya enjoys spending time with her dog Winston, listening to a wide variety of music, and unwinding with reality TV. She recently began crocheting, which has become a soothing creative outlet, and she loves traveling and discovering new cultures, interests that bring curiosity, grounding, and openness to her therapeutic style.