Born and raised in Pune, India, Dr. Joshi received her B.A. in Psychology from Fergusson College, Pune, and her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Pune. She obtained her Ph.D. in Counseling/School Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2013. Dr. Joshi completed her pre-doctoral training at the Johns Hopkins Counseling Center in Baltimore, MD, and her postdoctoral fellowship in Psycho-Oncology at the Colorado Blood Cancer Institute in Denver, CO. After spending most of her career in academia as a faculty member and administrator, Dr. Joshi joined the team at CaPS to oversee the graduate and doctoral training program in mental health. She is licensed as a psychologist in New York and Colorado.

Dr. Joshi is a generalist practitioner and has a special interest in working clients from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds, particularly international students. Her primary clinical interests include grief and loss, trauma, acculturation stress, chronic illness and pain, sociopolitical stress, women's issues, and spirituality. Dr. Joshi's theoretical orientation is culturally sensitive psychodynamic therapy. Within a healing therapeutic relationship based in empathy, authenticity, and unconditional positive regard, she facilitates clients to explore the roots of their own struggles (generally beginning in childhood) and helps them to develop insight into their own behaviors. Empowered by this insight, she helps them make life choices that are aligned with their own values and goals in life. She is a strong believer that systems of oppression impact all of us believes that all psychopathology develops in a systemic context that needs to be accounted for in treatment. 

In her free time, Dr. Joshi loves spending time with her family and friends, advocating for social justice, Bollywood dancing, listening to music (Bollywood, especially!), and reading. 

Therapy provided in: English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi and Farsi