by Swati Kedia | Jun 16, 2022 | For Clients, For Families, For Professionals
We have all grown up listening to these beautiful fairy tales (and I am not even getting into the damsel in distress part), where everything ended well. The couple got united after all the hardships and troubles, and “lived happily ever after”. And all of us were...
by Swati Kedia | Feb 9, 2022 | For Professionals
Once, a client of mine commented that he often imagines a therapist as a “machine” – someone who is trained to listen, filled with psychological jargon, and then trained to say, “just the right words” Of course, he didn’t mean to hurt me in any way and I never took it...
by Swati Kedia | Aug 31, 2021 | For Clients, For Families, For Professionals
by Swati Kedia | Jun 20, 2021 | For Clients, For Professionals
The cornerstone of Cognitive Behavior Therapy is being able to recognise and challenge one’s dysfunctional patterns of thinking. This document would be useful for clients attempting to understand and change their thoughts and for fellow mental health...
by Swati Kedia | May 2, 2021 | For Clients, For Families, For Professionals, Uncategorized
2020 was a “dreaded” year… an unseen virus wreaked havoc, fear was seen in people’s eyes, which funnily was the only thing visible because of the masks, pictures of frontline workers sweating in PPE kits, unemployment, suicides, lockdowns and quarantines. As the year...
by Swati Kedia | Sep 19, 2020 | For Clients, For Families, For Professionals
I grew up in the 80s. We got the color TV when I was 2 years of age and we had one landline in the middle of the drawing-room for all my teen years. Obviously, there was no cable network and we looked forward to twice a weekly song show (known as Chitrahaar),...