Kavitha Lakshmanan, LCSW

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Kavitha provides psychotherapy for children, adolescents, and adults using a variety of methods at the Evelyn Frye Center. She has been a member of the staff since 2005. Kavitha holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Union University and a Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Her graduate training included clinical experience at the BJC Hospice and a children’s bereavement agency. She also completed clinical training at the Children’s Advocacy Center of Greater St. Louis, where she conducted assessments and psychotherapy with sexually abused children, adolescents, and their non-offending parents. In addition, Kavitha completed a two-year post graduate clinical fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center, providing treatment in the Outpatient Clinic and in three public school settings.

Kavitha is presently a candidate of the Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program of the Nashville Psychoanalytic Study Group co-sponsored by the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. She is committed to her own ongoing personal and professional growth in order to foster healing and recovery in her clients.

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