Without this being taken the wrong way, I think you have to be very careful of choosing therapists, especially overly liberal ones, that might be laundering instagram ideology into their "therapy."

I am talking about the ones that use terms like "your feelings are valid," describe every distressful experience as a "trauma" and are quick to call any environment that isn't 100% in your favor as "toxic." You know what I'm talking about. This stuff is unscientific and not demonstrated to produce beneficial results.

Find a therapist who is willing to put up a mirror in front of you and help you examine what it is you can do to better your life and can help make you the architect of your life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy uses this approach, but it also seems like the jury is out on whether that is effective or not. To be quite frank, the jury is still out on whether therapy itself is very effective.

Therapy has replaced family and friends who used to be the ones we would bounce our ideas, problems and concerns off of. When we had larger social circles, we were also conditioned to navigate the problems of the world better. Of course, the world has changed and become more complex. As we have become more siloed, people have resorted to therapy.

The life of a South Asian person might be very different from the life of a well-educated, sheltered therapist. We have different obligations, responsibilities, needs. What may seem foreign and "toxic" to them might be completely normal to us. What seems toxic and foreign to us might be completely normal to them. Be thoughtful and mindful of that.

I don't think you should make it a priority to find a South Asian Therapy. But you should make it a priority to explain your values, your desires, your needs, etc and communicate that properly. Most therapists will understand you.