Meet Bryana

Bryana Kappadakunnel is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and founder of Conscious Mommy. She supports women and parents in healing inherited patterns, reconnecting with themselves, and creating more secure, embodied relationships with their children, their families, and their own lives.

Her clinical work is rooted in attachment, trauma healing, Somatic Experiencing, conscious parenting, mindfulness, and early childhood mental health. She helps clients understand how their nervous system, early relationships, family dynamics, and lived experiences shape the way they respond to themselves and the people they love.

Bryana’s work with women centers on inner child healing, embodiment, self-trust, boundaries, emotional regulation, and the unlearning of guilt, shame, people-pleasing, self-abandonment, and overfunctioning. She supports women in moving out of survival patterns and into a deeper sense of vitality, wholeness, and connection with themselves.

In her work with parents, Bryana helps caregivers look beneath behavior to better understand their child’s nervous system, developmental needs, and relational cues. Rather than focusing on control or quick behavioral fixes, she supports parents in building the capacity to respond with more regulation, attunement, and confidence.

Bryana also specializes in supporting mothers through pregnancy, postpartum, and early motherhood, including perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, identity shifts, unrealistic expectations, boundary struggles, guilt, and overwhelm.

As the creator and voice behind Conscious Mommy, Bryana also offers the Conscious Mommy Community, an online membership for parents of children birth through 12 who want ongoing support outside of therapy. The community includes monthly topic-driven classes, twice monthly group parent coaching, an on-demand video library, and downloadable resources designed to help parents feel more regulated, connected, and confident in their parenting. South Bay families are invited to receive 25% off membership with the code SBMM-FAMILY.

Bryana holds a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology and has been licensed since 2015. She is an Infant-Family Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist, a Perinatal Mental Health Specialist-Certified, and is trained in Conscious Parenting through Dr. Shefali’s program. She is currently completing her credential in Somatic Experiencing, expected in 2027.

She is the author of Parent Yourself First: Raise Confident, Compassionate Kids By Becoming the Parent You Wish You’d Had.

Most importantly, she’s the mom of two, a Pittsburgh native, and now calls South Torrance her home.

Psychotherapy Services:

• Therapy for Infants, Toddlers, and Early Childhood (Birth-5)

• Parenting Therapy

• Maternal Mental Health

• Somatic Therapy for Women

• Individual Play Therapy + Parent Sessions for Kids 6-10 years

• In-Person and Telehealth availability

Email for availability