Insights & guidance
Honest, practical writing on the things people actually bring to therapy, anxiety and burnout, difficult relationships, healing from the past, and finding support that understands your culture. Grounded in evidence, written with warmth.
Reads to help you make sense of things
Baby Blues or Postpartum Depression? How to Tell
The timing, duration and severity that separate them, and when to get help.
Indian Family Issues: What Actually Goes On
The patterns that come round again in Indian and South Asian families.
How to Tell Indian Parents You Need Therapy
What to say, when, and what not to lead with.
Can You Go to Therapy Without Your Parents Knowing?
Confidentiality, the paper trail, and the practicalities.
What to Talk About in Therapy: 12 Places to Start
Twelve concrete starting points, and what to do when you go blank.
Can Narcissistic Personality Disorder Be Treated?
An honest look at what works, and what to do if you are asking about someone else.
Understanding TherapyTypes of Therapy Explained
CBT, DBT, IFS, EFT, Gottman and more, from a therapist trained in them.
Read → RelationshipsWhat to Look For in a Couples Therapist
Training, balance, method and red flags, from a couples therapist.
Read → For practitionersDigital Marketing for Therapists
How I went from 20 to 100 clients a month, and how long it actually took.
Read → Understanding TherapyDo Psychiatrists Do Therapy?
Most no longer do. What they actually provide, and who to see for therapy.
Read → Understanding TherapyPsychotherapist vs Therapist vs Counsellor
What each title actually means, and how to choose the right professional.
Read → RelationshipsRelationship Advice for Couples, From a Therapist
What actually strengthens a relationship, and what quietly erodes it.
Read → AnxietyStress vs anxiety: what's the difference?
How to tell them apart, and why it changes what actually helps.
Read → AnxietyHow to stop catastrophizing
Six therapist tools to quiet worst-case thinking before it spirals.
Read → Relationships10 common gaslighting phrases
The subtle lines that make you doubt yourself, and how to respond.
Read → FamilySigns of a narcissistic mother
Patterns to recognise, and gentle first steps toward protecting yourself.
Read → RelationshipsWhat is an enmeshed relationship?
When closeness crosses into losing yourself, and how to find healthy space.
Read → DepressionBehavioural activation for low mood
Why doing comes before feeling, a simple, evidence-based way to start.
Read → HealingHealing from a toxic childhood
How early wounds shape adult life, and what recovery can look like.
Read → BurnoutSigns you're heading for burnout
The warning signals that are easy to miss, and what to do about them.
Read → CultureCulturally-sensitive therapy for South Asians
Why being understood, not translated, makes therapy work.
Read → Life transitionsCoping with relocation stress
The hidden grief of moving countries, and how to steady yourself.
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