How many new year resolutions were you able to achieve in the past few years? What are the reasons that hindered you from achieving them? Setting new year goals isn’t just about writing down the changes and goals you want to happen in the coming year. More than achieving goals, it’s about commitment. So if […]

By Dr. Huma Durrani “I don’t fit in with my classmates”! “The girls made a plan and left me out intentionally”!  “I don’t know why, but I don’t have friends” ! Above are some common reasons that drive unhappy adolescents to therapy or counselling. Usually the most readily available resource to tackle the issue are […]

By Dr. Huma Durrani Self-regulation is the capacity to manage emotional highs and lows caused by internal and/or external stimuli that may be sensory or psychological in nature. It is essential for the development of adequate social skills, effective learning at school, controlling impulses, managing behaviors and achieving goals. Typically children learn to self-regulate in […]

By Dr. Huma Durrani  I am continuously amazed by the raw authenticity of children’s artwork. Compared to adults, creative expression comes naturally to children for communicating deep emotional content that they may not be able to put into words. After all, how many kids do you know who can articulate the underlying reasons for their […]

By Dr. Huma Durrani Challenging behaviors in adolescents and teenagers are often symptomatic of underlying stress related to academic pressure, exposure to and overuse of social media and technology, peer pressure, and relationship problems. These stressors can result in low self-esteem, difficulty with self-regulation, depression, anxiety, addiction, self-harm and so on. To address the aforementioned […]

By Avanti Nim Rastogi In times of crises, individuals are constantly being reminded to think of other people. Some people have it much worse than you do, they say, and while that might be true – you have to take care of yourself first.  This is not to say you shouldn’t spend a portion of […]

By Dr. Huma Durrani No matter how hard one tries nowadays, conversation ends up revolving around the topic of Covid-19. Consciously or sub-consciously most of us are incessantly keeping a close watch on the number of virus cases, hoping that statistics will predict the direction our lives might take this year.  The current pandemic has unleashed collective […]

By Dr. Huma Durrani Life changing, earth shattering, epiphenous, dystopian…the past few months have personified one or the other realities for most of us. In order to adapt to the ‘new normal’, we ‘ve been shaken out of our comfort zones and have had to let go of recognizable notions of life, involuntarily opening ourselves […]

By Avanti Nim Rastogi If you find yourself feeling emotions you aren’t used to feeling, and defaulting to behaviours which may make you happy in the moment, but which you know aren’t necessarily helpful in the long term, be kind to yourself. We are in an unprecedented time of uncertainty right now, and it’s only […]