Dr. Sugandika Subawickrama

Dr. Sugandika Subawickrama is a licensed clinician with two credentials: LCPC and LPC. She brings 20 years of experience to her work and practices in New Jersey. She greets new clients with a straightforward, calm approach and encourages people who are nervous about beginning therapy to take the first step.

Her work focuses on common and hard problems such as stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. She also helps with career concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and ADHD. Dr. Subawickrama offers support for people dealing with trauma and coping with major life changes.

Her style is warm and client-centered. She aims to build an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. Sessions tend to focus on practical steps people can try between meetings and on reshaping thoughts and habits that get in the way of daily life.

She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness tools to address unhelpful thinking and to strengthen coping skills. Motivational Interviewing is used when people want help finding direction or sustaining change. Narrative and client-centered approaches shape conversations about identity and values.

Dr. Subawickrama speaks English and Sinhala. She works with career-related concerns among many other issues and encourages prospective clients to begin by completing the site's intake steps to match with her and schedule sessions.

Approaches that translate well to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs. In practice this means building a respectful space where clients set the pace and topics, which helps with anxiety, relationship concerns, and self-esteem. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It uses simple exercises and homework to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for stress, depression, and sleep or eating problems. Mindfulness Therapy brings attention to the present moment through short practices and awareness exercises to reduce reactivity and improve coping.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and daily routines to choose which methods to try first. This is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.

Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online work can make therapy easier to fit into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It also lets people use written tools, guided exercises, and structured homework between meetings to reinforce progress.