Insights into the Mind

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…