Dr. Shruti Kankaria is a registered Clinical Psychologist and the founder of Bolton Psychology. She has over 15 years of clinical experience providing therapy to adolescents, adults, and couples.

Dr. Kankaria helps clients slow down what often feels tangled, overwhelming, or hard to name. Her work supports clients in making sense of emotional responses, relationship patterns, inner criticism, and long-held expectations so they can respond to themselves and others with more compassion.

Clients often describe Dr. Kankaria as warm, empathic, patient, thoughtful, direct, and thorough. Her approach balances emotional safety with clinical clarity, helping clients feel deeply understood while also identifying the assumptions, protective strategies, and relational dynamics that may be keeping them stuck. She is known for explaining complex psychological ideas in a clear, human, and practical way.

Dr. Kankaria has a particular interest in relational and identity-based work, including couples therapy, women’s mental health, neurodivergence, and South Asian mental health. She supports clients navigating conflict, emotional disconnection, fertility struggles, pregnancy and postpartum adjustment, caregiving roles, ADHD, masking, rejection sensitivity, cultural expectations, achievement pressure, shame, family roles, and the tension between individual needs and collective obligations.

In therapy, Dr. Kankaria helps clients understand not only what they are experiencing, but what has shaped it and what keeps it going. Her work often involves helping clients build emotional honesty, strengthen communication, develop practical tools, and create more compassionate and accountable ways of relating to themselves and others.

Having lived in five countries, Dr. Kankaria brings a culturally responsive lens to her work. As the founder of Bolton Psychology, she is also involved in clinical supervision, practice development, and shaping the values that guide the clinic’s work.