(she/her) Trainee Counselling Psychologist (🇬🇧/🇦🇪/🇮🇳) Interested in Disordered Eating, Social Justice, SA mental health policies and trauma focused care.
Hi everyone! I am looking at interviewing South Asian university students to understand the role of food in their life.
If you fit the criteria for the study or can share with anyone eligible; I hope to interview you for my thesis as it's an underresearched area. Thank you! 🙏🏽
I have two tickets for Jorja Smith, 5th June 2025 London, Eventim Apollo. Unfortunately due to an emergency I won’t be able to go, pls message me if you’d like to buy these tickets!
Benzos and SSRIs aren't anxiety solutions—they're handcuffs disguised as medicine. For decades I've watched doctors transform a highly treatable condition into lifelong dependency. The truth? Panic attacks aren't dangerous. And you can break free without pills. 95% of people don't receive the help they require. My latest article with video.
What people call cPTSD is a constellation of personality organization developed around reminders of their traumatic experiences. Their masking is also associated with avoiding vulnerability but with a more destructive skills breakdown when conscious masking becomes too laborious.
My wish for the new year is for a global shift away from the individualistic “new year, new me” mindset and towards unity and collective rage towards the injustices in the world.
What if we stopped calling it 'borderline personality disorder' and started calling it what it often is: survival patterns from unmet needs, trauma, misrecognition and rejection.
#TraumaNotPD
Intellectualization creates a gap or lack of rapport between you and your life. You may think about things so much that you get into the state where you are eating the menu instead of the dinner.
The only reason I can think of why is because of our skin colour. Systemic racism and discrimination meant so many opportunities were lost, not just during the past few months but the past few DECADES & my family were painted as a “hysterical” & “overdramatic” as a result.
Aren’t psychologists supposed to be trained in self-reflection? Why so many getting defensive over valid criticism of lack of racial diversity within this profession? Why so narrow minded? Why can’t you acknowledge that your profession actively profiting from systemic racism.
The NHS does not need to be ‘reformed’. It needs proper investment and for privatisation to be eliminated. Politicians are trying to convince you that the model is broken, because they want to enable more public money to funnel into private hands 🚨🚨🚨
As a training programme that is notorious for burnout because of multiple demands, unavoidable out of hours working, and generally being very stressful, it blows my mind that funded therapy is still not an option for DClinPsy students