In 2016, when I took a leap of faith and began my private practice, I was plagued with doubt and thoughts like "Will I ever get a client?", "Was I stupid to leave a full-time job?", "Will I ever have a full-fledged practice?" were pretty common-place. ...
Teaching Tolerance: Challenging Gender Stereotypes
This is 2020. Today, the youth are definitely more "woke" than the previous generation - a term which simply means that they are more aware and active about movements and issues related to social and racial injustice - and more and more people are questi ...
Letting Them Go: Social Media For The Broken-Hearted
A few nights ago when I was randomly scrolling through my Facebook Newsfeed, I saw a comment on my friend’s wall by someone I haven’t been in touch with for a while. I was a little bit surprised to see their name, and a part of me just wanted to scroll d ...
Expecto Patronum!
There are times when the world we inhabit seems to be quite a scary place. We are, sometimes, presented with a continuous streak of horrible days that just seem to get from bad to worse. There are some days where we can’t find even one reason to smile. I ...
What Harry Potter Taught Me About Grief
I have read the Harry Potter series countless number of times, and each time I revisit it, I feel like I have stumbled upon a new gem of wisdom. When I was in college, a classmate of mine told me that reading Harry Potter helped her come to terms with he ...
Misconceptions about Psychology: Mind-Reading, Hypnosis, Lie-Detectors and more…
I would have become a millionaire by now had I received a penny every time someone asked me the question, "Tell me what I am thinking?" the moment they found that I am a student of Psychology. Being a student of Psychology or a psychologist, by professio ...