ABOUT

Shilpa Kapoor | Licensed psychologist Coach Palo Alto

CEO/Owner/Psychologist/Supervisor

Welcome! I’m Shilpa, a licensed clinical psychologist, bicultural woman of color, and woman entrepreneur, dedicated to empowering individuals to navigate life’s challenges with resilience, clarity, and purpose. My coaching practice is rooted in empathy, compassion, and a solution-oriented approach, designed to help you unlock your potential and create meaningful change in your life. As a thought partner, I walk alongside you, offering a safe and nonjudgmental space to explore your goals, challenges, and aspirations. My client-focused approach ensures that our work together is tailored to your unique needs, strengths, and identity. Whether you’re navigating personal growth, career transitions, relationships with yourself and others, or the complexities of balancing multiple cultural identities, I am here to support you in cultivating self-awareness, building confidence, and achieving your vision for a fulfilling life.

My bicultural background and lived experiences as a woman of color deeply inform my practice, allowing me to bring a nuanced understanding of identity, intersectionality, and the unique pressures faced by marginalized communities. I am passionate about helping individuals harness their inner strength, embrace their authentic selves, and create actionable pathways toward their goals.

If you’re ready to embark on a transformative journey with a compassionate and solution-focused guide, I invite you to reach out. Together, we can co-create a roadmap to help you thrive—personally, professionally, and beyond.

her clients.

Her background includes clinical supervision, crisis response, strategic program development, and healthcare leadership, giving her a unique, results-driven approach to coaching. Whether working with couples, executives, or individuals, Summer provides compassionate and structured coaching to help clients navigate challenges, strengthen relationships, and reach their personal and professional aspirations.

How I help

I provide a warm and kind environment where you can safely identify and explore those issues that may be getting in the way of a more fulfilling life. Together, we will tackle unhelpful thinking patterns, find buried and underutilized strengths, focus on problem-solving and growth, strengthen connections with others, and ultimately rediscover ourselves through learning new things and viewing ourselves in newer and healthier ways.

More About Me:

You can find me traveling to new countries each year, enjoying new cultures, food, and scenery. When I’m not traveling, I like to spend time with family and friends, hiking, cooking, reading, learning new things, and sometimes doing nothing.

My Specialities

Lifestyle Medicine Coaching:

Science-Based Wellness for Lasting Change

Achieve balance, fulfillment, and sustainable well-being with evidence-based lifestyle coaching tailored to your unique needs. As a psychologist specializing in lifestyle medicine, I help you harness the power of behavior change to prevent and manage chronic conditions, reduce stress, and optimize health. Using evidence-based strategies, we’ll focus on nutrition, movement, sleep, stress resilience, and mindset—so you can thrive in both body and mind.

Key Benefits:

Sustainable habit formation
Chronic stress & burnout reduction
Improved energy & mental clarity
Personalized, holistic health strategies

Areas of Focus:

Stress & burnout prevention
Work-life-self harmony
Healthy habit formation
Emotional well-being
Goal setting & motivation
Maintaining gains

Transform your daily life with expert lifestyle coaching—gain clarity, build resilience, and create sustainable habits that boost happiness and productivity.

Proactive Mental Wellness:

Build Resilience Before Crisis Hits

Your mind deserves the same preventive care as your body. As a psychologist, I offer science-backed mental health coaching to help you develop emotional resilience, stress-proof your nervous system, and cultivate psychological fitness—before challenges become overwhelming.

This proactive coaching equips you with science-backed tools to prevent burnout, manage anxiety, and maintain peak mental performance—so you can thrive through life’s ups and downs

Think of it as personal training for your mind—because mental health isn’t just about treating problems, it’s about building unshakable strength.)

What We’ll Address:

Recognizing intergenerational trauma patterns
Rewiring stress responses & limiting beliefs
Cultivating emotional resilience for yourself & descendants
Building legacy-focused coping strategies

Move from survival to growth with science-backed strategies tailored to your journey.

Stronger Together:

Premarital Counseling for Lasting Love

Build a rock-solid foundation for your marriage with evidence-based premarital coaching. As a psychologist, I help couples develop essential communication tools, conflict resolution skills, and realistic expectations—so you can navigate life’s challenges as a united team.

Areas of Focus:

Tools for healthy conflict resolution and open communication
Clear understanding of each other’s needs & values
Strategies to maintain emotional & physical intimacy
Financial & family planning alignment
Prevention of common marital pitfalls

Build unshakable communication skills and emotional connection before saying “I do.” Start your lifelong partnership with confidence, clarity and a shared vision for the future.

Heal the Past, Strengthen the Future:

Intergenerational Trauma & Resilience Coaching

As a trauma specialist, I help individuals and families break free from inherited pain cycles while fostering resilience across generations. This evidence-based coaching explores how historical wounds shape your present—and equips you with tools to rewrite the narrative.

What We’ll Address:

Recognizing intergenerational trauma patterns
Rewiring stress responses & limiting beliefs
Cultivating emotional resilience for yourself & descendants
Building legacy-focused coping strategies

Move from survival to growth with science-backed strategies tailored to your journey.

Lifestyle Skill-Building Coaching for Parents:

Lifestyle Skill-Building Coaching for Parents

Help your teen thrive—not just survive—with psychologist-backed guidance that balances protection with preparation for real-world challenges. This coaching equips parents to foster critical life skills while providing the “freedom within parameters” teens need to grow into capable, emotionally intelligent adults.

We’ll focus on:

Risk vs. Protection: Shield without smothering—build skills to navigate temptations, setbacks, and big emotions
Life’s Classroom: Teach problem-solving, delayed gratification, and growth mindset through everyday challenges
Emotional Toolkit: Validate big feelings while coaching conflict resolution, self-compassion, and resilience (“We can do hard things!”)
Redefining Success: Move beyond grades to cultivate purpose, critical thinking, and recovery from mistakes

For parents ready to:

Replace “fixing” with coaching
Let teens experience natural consequences (with support)
Prepare them for life—not just straight A’s

Because raising resilient teens starts with confident parents.

Understand. Connect. Grow Together.

Neurodivergent Couples Coaching for Stronger Bonds

Build a lasting, joyful partnership with grounded strategies that help neurodivergent and neurotypical partners understand, support, and respond to each other in ways that feel safe, honest, and affirming. Backed by neurodiversity‑affirming research and real‑life coaching, this program equips you both to grow together with empathy, clarity, and connection.

We’ll focus on-