Somewhere around my fourth year of practice, I stopped asking the question I had been trained to open with. “What brings you here today?” — clean, neutral, textbook. I used it hundreds of times. And hundreds of times, people gave…
A few years ago, a client — I’ll call her Priya — came to me in a state of what she described as “low-level dread that never quite goes away.” She was sleeping poorly, withdrawing from friends, and had started…
I almost didn’t catch it. That’s the part that still bothers me.
I remember a client I saw in my third year of practice — a woman in her early forties who had read every self-help book on the market, completed an eight-week mindfulness course, and was doing everything she thought she…
I remember sitting across from a client — I’ll call her M — who had been managing anxiety for nearly two decades. She’d read the books, tried the breathing exercises she found on YouTube, and had even done a short…
Money Management for Newlyweds: How to Build Your Financial Life Together Without Losing Your Minds You just got married. You’re still riding the high of the wedding, the honeymoon, the newness of saying “my husband” or “my wife” out loud. And then — sometime around the third week of cohabiting as a legally bound unit … Read more
For years, I was deeply sceptical of positive affirmations. Standing in front of a mirror repeating “I am confident, I am worthy, I am enough” felt performative at best — and honestly, a little embarrassing. When I was going through…
There is a particular kind of relief that comes from being truly heard. Not fixed, not analysed, not given a five-step plan — just heard. I did not fully understand why that feeling was so powerful until I started reading…
I was in my late twenties before I realised I had been having essentially the same argument with myself since adolescence. The voice was critical, relentless, and persuasive — and for a long time, I genuinely believed everything it told…
A few years ago, I became slightly obsessed with morning routines — mostly because mine was genuinely chaotic and I had a strong suspicion it was affecting my mood. I’d roll out of bed ten minutes before I needed to…