About Me

Hello, I am Devaki! A licensed therapist with a specialty in expressive arts therapy, and the creator of Nurturing You, Nurturing Them — a course born from my own journey through the raw, beautiful, and often disorienting early days of parenting. In 2023, I completed the Applied Compassion Training program at CCARE, Stanford, where I deepened not only my understanding of compassion for myself, but also developed the tools to share it meaningfully with others.

Motherhood cracked me open in ways I couldn’t have imagined. It was in those vulnerable, tender moments that the seed for this work took root. I wanted to create a space where parents feel held rather than judged — a space where compassion meets us in the mess, not after we’ve cleaned it up (and goodness knows there is a lot of cleaning up we parents are tasked with). Through this course, I offer practices and resources to help parents reconnect with themselves and their children with greater gentleness, presence, and honesty.

I’m also a photo artist and create content on mental health — and a full-time mama, always learning and re-learning the tender art of staying with what is.