Overcoming Bias, with Amisha Desai

Amisha Desai is an Asian Indian Marriage and Family Therapist. She is the founder of Self Empowering Journeys- a private practice in Montville, NJ, and an educator for over ten years. Amisha is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in Culture, Diversity, and Social Justice in a Global Context. She has served as the Education Chair for the New Jersey Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and worked as an Adjunct Professor at Bergen Community College. Besides being a therapist and an educator, Amisha lives in New Jersey with her husband, mother-in-law, and two children.

She was born and raised in a Hindu family in India and immigrated to the United States in her mid-twenties. While pursuing education in the USA and later practicing as a family therapist, she found few counselors from her background, although there were numerous Asian Indian doctors and psychiatrists. Thus, she is passionate about the appropriate…