Arpita Gupta DePalma, MD, TIPC founded Thought Work, MD to help physicians and professional women learn how to identify, manage, and then let go of what is not serving them through transformational mindset
coaching. In addition to being the CEO and founder of Thought Work, MD, she is a pediatrician, a medical
practice owner and DOO of Virginia iSpine Physicians. After completing her coach certification with The Life
Coach School in 2021, she went on to become certified as a Trauma Informed Professional Coach (TIPC) with Lodestar, and then earned her certification as an Advanced Deep Dive Coach with Bev Aron in 2023.

Arpita helps powerful women learn how to stay ahead of their emotions so that they show up calm,
collected and in control, ready to lead and execute with poise. In her one to one and group coaching
programs, she provides clients the unique tools they need to optimize how they show up each day to
accomplish more, while being happier doing so. Arpita specializes in helping clients with anger
management, time management, perfectionism, and self-worth issues, parenting and cultural disparities,
business development, and any other area they want to up-level in their lives.

She shares nuggets of wisdom with her audience on her podcasts, From Pissed Off to Poised and Doctors
Living Deliberately, while reminding others to live intentionally by remembering their “Why”.