Bryana Kappadakunnel is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (90464), an Infant-Family Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist, and a Perinatal Mental Health Specialist-Certified. She earned her Conscious Parenting coaching credential from Dr. Shefali’s Conscious Parenting Institute.
Since 2011, Bryana has worked exclusively with families with very young children to navigate challenges related to child development, ADHD, behavioral & emotional issues, attachment problems, family dysfunction, poor boundaries, discipline challenges, and trauma.
Guided by attachment theory and the neurorelational framework, her approach is unique in that she works primarily with parents by helping them discover their child’s nervous system and developmental needs. In this process, parents also learn about their nervous system, and the ways it supports - and sometimes conflicts - with their child’s. She also guides parents to develop vital skills in self-reflection & deconstructing familial cycles of guilt and shame, which aims to drastically shift the child-parent relational patterns.
Bryana also specializes in working with new moms experiencing perinatal mood or anxiety disorders as well as the general ups & downs of new motherhood. She uses a conscious- and mindfulness-informed approach to help moms realign their expectations with reality, deconstruct the guilt & shame they’re experiencing, set more effective boundaries, and shift into the present moment, where depression and anxiety cannot exist.
Bryana has a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology, has been licensed since 2015, and has an extensive number of advanced certifications & specializations in perinatal, infant, and early childhood mental health as well as conscious parenting. She has 2 children.
