What I help with
A clear, honest map of the emotional, behavioural, cognitive, relationship and lifestyle concerns I work with as a psychologist in Kota — paired with the evidence-based therapies behind each one.
Emotional & Mental Health Support
These are the quiet weights that affect your sleep, your mornings, your ability to enjoy what once felt easy. You're not weak — you're human, and what you're carrying deserves real attention.
Persistent worry, fear or restlessness that quietly takes over daily life — often disguised as 'just overthinking'.
Therapeutic approach: CBT · ACT · Somatic Therapy · Inner-Child Healing · Exposure Therapy · Relaxation Training
A mind stuck on replay — analysing, rehearsing, predicting — until even small decisions feel exhausting.
Therapeutic approach: CBT · Mindfulness · Thought-Defusion Techniques
More than sadness — a heaviness that flattens motivation, joy, sleep and connection. It can be major, situational or long-standing.
Therapeutic approach: CBT · Behavioural Activation · Interpersonal Therapy · Body-Based Regulation
Feeling unseen even in a room full of people — emotional, social or existential disconnection that often hides in plain sight.
Therapeutic approach: Interpersonal Therapy · Social Skills Training · Body-Based Regulation
Sudden shifts in emotion that confuse you and the people who love you — often tied to stress, hormones or unprocessed pain.
Therapeutic approach: DBT · Emotion Regulation Training
When your feelings go quiet — not because you're fine, but because feeling has become too much. A protective shutdown that needs gentle thawing.
Therapeutic approach: Trauma Therapy · Somatic Therapy
A persistent inner voice that says 'not enough' — shaping how you speak, choose and love.
Therapeutic approach: CBT · Self-Compassion Therapy
Heavy emotions about something you did (guilt) or who you believe you are (shame). Both can quietly run your life until you name them.
Therapeutic approach: CBT · Compassion-Focused Therapy
Intense, often irrational fears that shrink your world — specific phobias, social anxiety or agoraphobia.
Therapeutic approach: Exposure Therapy · CBT
Sudden, terrifying waves of fear with very physical symptoms — racing heart, breathlessness, dizziness — often mistaken for a heart problem.
Therapeutic approach: CBT · Interoceptive Exposure Therapy
The mind and body's response to deeply distressing experiences — childhood wounds, narcissistic or emotional abuse, sexual abuse — that quietly shape today.
Therapeutic approach: Trauma-Focused CBT · EMDR · Somatic & Trauma Therapy
Behavioural Challenges
Behaviours rarely happen in a vacuum — they're how the nervous system copes. We work with the behaviour and the emotion underneath.
Loss of control over a habit despite the cost — substances or behaviours like phone, gaming, porn, trading, smoking or alcohol.
Therapeutic approach: CBT · Relapse Prevention · Motivational Interviewing
Delaying what matters even when you want to do it — usually rooted in fear of failure, perfectionism or overwhelm.
Therapeutic approach: CBT · Behavioural Activation
Acting before thinking — emotionally, financially or relationally — and regretting it after.
Therapeutic approach: DBT · Impulse Control Training
Anger that feels too big, too fast — or that quietly leaks out as sarcasm and withdrawal — and slowly damages the people you love.
Therapeutic approach: CBT · Anger Management Training
A short fuse with everyone, including yourself — often an early signal of stress, burnout or hormonal change.
Therapeutic approach: Stress Management · CBT
Standards so high that 'good enough' never arrives — leaving you tired, self-critical and quietly miserable.
Therapeutic approach: CBT · Schema Therapy
Looking outside for permission, reassurance or decisions — slowly losing trust in your own voice.
Therapeutic approach: Schema Therapy · Assertiveness Training
Cognitive & Thinking Difficulties
Your thoughts are not facts. Therapy helps you notice them, question them, and choose new ones — without forcing fake positivity.
Automatic mental filters — catastrophising, mind-reading, self-blame — that quietly fuel anxiety and depression.
Therapeutic approach: CBT (Cognitive Restructuring) · Psychoeducation
A learned inner voice that questions your worth and decisions — usually rooted in old core beliefs.
Therapeutic approach: CBT · Confidence Building Therapy
A distracted, scattered mind — part overload, part emotion, part dopamine-loop habits like endless scrolling.
Therapeutic approach: CBT · Attention Training · Mindfulness
Stuck between options, terrified of the wrong one — until time itself starts making the decision for you.
Therapeutic approach: CBT · Decision-Making Training
Replaying the same conversation, mistake or fear — without ever moving an inch closer to peace.
Therapeutic approach: Mindfulness · CBT
Relationship & Attachment Issues
Most emotional pain is relational — and most healing happens in relationship too. We'll look at the patterns you carry, where they came from, and how to gently rewrite them.
When the words don't come — and the people closest to you keep misunderstanding what you actually mean.
Therapeutic approach: Communication Skills Training · Couples Therapy
When letting someone in feels unsafe — usually because, at some point, it was.
Therapeutic approach: Schema Therapy · CBT
Anxious, avoidant or disorganised patterns of bonding — formed early, repeated quietly, and very much workable.
Therapeutic approach: Attachment-Based Therapy
Grief, withdrawal, doubt, longing — the very real psychological work of letting go and rebuilding yourself.
Therapeutic approach: CBT · Grief Counselling · Emotional Processing
When the same fight keeps repeating, intimacy fades, and you start wondering if anything will change.
Therapeutic approach: Couples Therapy · Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) · Gottman Method
Generational patterns, role pressure, unspoken rules — and the emotional cost of being misunderstood at home.
Therapeutic approach: Family Therapy
Lifestyle & Stress Management
Mental health doesn't live separately from your sleep, your work, your studies or your routines. We'll work on all of it — practically.
Acute pressure, chronic load or full burnout — strategies that calm the body first, then the mind.
Therapeutic approach: Stress Management Therapy · Relaxation Training
Insomnia, restless nights, irregular cycles — sleep is rarely 'just sleep'; it mirrors what your mind hasn't processed yet.
Therapeutic approach: CBT-I · Relaxation Therapy · Habit Formation
When work quietly eats your evenings, weekends and relationships — and rest starts to feel like guilt.
Therapeutic approach: CBT · Time Management · Lifestyle Restructuring
Exam pressure, performance anxiety and comparison stress — especially relevant for students in Kota's competitive environment.
Therapeutic approach: CBT · Study Skills Training · Emotional Support
You don't need a diagnosis to begin. Send a message and we'll figure it out together in a relaxed first conversation — no pressure, no judgement.