When someone receives a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), the referral pathway is often almost automatic: "Find a DBT therapist." There's a good reason for this. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan, has one of the strongest evidence bases for treating BPD. It has helped countless individuals reduce self-harm, improve emotional regulation, and build lives worth living. But somewhere along the way, "gold standard" became synonymous with "the...

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious, said Sigmund Freud. And while Freud's work on dreams opened up a completely new pathway to accessing the unconscious, it seems that it made dream work inaccessible to psychologists who are not trained in the psychoanalytic or a psychodynamic approach. When I started working as a counselling psychologist, my supervisor encouraged me to bring in dreams to the session. And in my own personal analysis, my analyst, being a Jungian analyst, worked...

I was working at a Palliative Care Center as a Counselling Psychologist run by an Oncologist Family’s Foundation out of a modest corner building of a well-known Hospital in the South of Mumbai. Here’s a moment that has stayed with me, ten years down the line. I recall sitting across from a 65-year-old caregiver and noticing, Ms. Jasmine, who otherwise looked composed on all the days that she would accompany her 70-year-old husband, Mr. Adi for therapy, feeling exhausted and visibly...