In conversation with therapists and experts Leanne Pais and Dr. Rachel Jayaseelan on Insecurities in Relationships. We explore different approaches and understandings to insecurities and how we can begin change our perception and relationship to our insecurities.
Author: Shravanthi V
Male Therapists and Men’s Mental Health -Svaha Conversations
This video explores the lived experience of three male therapists, as well as how they navigate the space of mental health personally and professionally. We also touch upon areas of: Male upbringing and relationship to vulnerability Needs for emotional safety Systemic oppression (within a patriarchal system) Male therapists in female dominated industry Legal issues & […]
Intersectionality & Queer Representation in Mental Health in India: Svaha Space Conversations
In this Video the panelists and moderator explore their personal relationships with intersectionality and queer representation within mental health in India. It is an introductory conversation on the need for representation within Queer Mental Health within a fast paced evolution of urban mental health needs within the queer space.
Pondering Suicide
Upon the arrival and the chugging along of September, I found myself steeped within the conversation of Suicide Prevention Awareness as a result of 10th September being a crucial day for awareness, and the month providing spaces for discussion. With this was also the arrival of the bombardment of the statistics of people who have […]
A Conversation on Suicide
This conversation places on Suicide from an experiential point of view. The aim of the conversation was to address that everyone has their own journey within understanding suicide. It is an understanding that constantly evolves. Suicide is a cons. We also cover the panelists views on their own: Misconceptions Undoing the Us vs Them Role […]
Dark Humor, Satire, and The Therapy Room
When I meet my clients in the therapy room, I notice the more time I spend with them the funnier they allow themselves to be in my presence. On our first meeting, I generally meet nervous people on the couch or through the screen. They are often afraid of meeting judgment. Most likely because they […]
Who Can Come for Therapy and Why
We all have an idea of therapy clients. It’s a picture of distressed, breaking down adults, emotionally polarized, rebellious adolescents, and nervous/hard to control/withdrawn children. In all these descriptions, we picture these human profiles going through the extremes, don’t we? Although, therapy and counseling are most definitely very welcoming and nurturing spaces for people in […]
The Therapy Room Offers…
For many of us the therapy room is a mysterious place. People who go in, almost certainly, come out slightly altered from when they stepped into the room; and like children outside a locked door we wonder, probably with curiosity, apprehension or fear, what happens in there. This article hopes to demystify the therapy room. […]