Grounded in Non-Dual Awareness
Sanjay Manchanda, PhD has practiced psychotherapy for more than thirty years. His approach is unusual in the field: rigorous Western clinical training, with a Master's in Counseling Psychology, grounding in depth psychology, and decades of clinical practice, held within the wider view of non-dual awareness cultivated through his own long immersion in the Buddhist and Hindu contemplative traditions.
In practice, this means the work addresses both dimensions of a human life. There is the personal dimension: the wounds, patterns, and protective strategies formed by our history. And there is the deeper dimension: the awareness in which all of this experience arises, which is never damaged and never absent. Most therapy attends only to the first; most spiritual teaching attends only to the second. Sanjay's work weaves them together, because in his experience each remains incomplete without the other.
This approach was not assembled in a classroom. It was forged by necessity.
"For a large part of my early life, I suffered from early developmental trauma, anxiety, depression, and chronic heart illness. I had no choice but to take a broad, integrated approach. Nothing narrower could truly address all the dimensions of my suffering, or my deeper aim: to be a well-integrated, fully functioning, happy human being in service to the world. I only teach and work with methods that I have used to help myself and found invaluable."
Every method offered in this practice has been tested first in the most demanding laboratory available: a life that needed real healing. Clients often say this is felt in the room; the work is guided by someone who knows the territory from the inside.
"Healing and awakening are not two paths but one territory. The work of the psyche and the recognition of our deeper nature support and complete each other."
- Sanjay
Working gently with the body and nervous system to release what the past has left behind, using memory-based, somatic, and parts-oriented approaches.
Meeting the disowned parts of ourselves with awareness and compassion, so they stop running life from behind the scenes.
Releasing limiting beliefs and old emotional patterns while building genuine stability and resilience.
Support for those navigating the aftermath of awakening experiences, intensive retreats, or profound insights that daily life hasn't caught up with.
Steady, experienced guidance when practice or life opens more than expected.
Sessions are relational, experiential, and inclusive of the body. Rather than only talking about difficulties, you'll be guided to work with them directly: noticing how a pattern lives in the body, tracing a belief to its origins and releasing it, dialoguing with the parts of you that hold old strategies, and resting in the awareness that can hold all of it. Sanjay draws flexibly on depth psychology, memory reconsolidation, somatic and parts work, and mindfulness-based methods, tailored to each person rather than applied by formula.
For clients who wish, the work can also be complemented by neurotherapy, qEEG-guided neurofeedback and gentle neurostimulation that support the nervous system's capacity for regulation and change from the physiological side.
Sanjay is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California and Arizona; psychotherapy services are available via Zoom to clients located in those states. Fees are discussed at the initial consultation, and insurance billing is possible in some cases.
The first meeting is a consultation: an unhurried conversation about your history, what brings you, and whether this work is the right fit. Where another approach or practitioner would serve you better, Sanjay will say so and help you find your way there.
Contact the Office to Begin »Residing outside California or Arizona? Sanjay works with people worldwide through consulting and coaching, neurotherapy, and the Monday Integration Group.
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