Category Archives: Positive Psychology

With the lockdown, everything suddenly stopped within a day. I’d often joke about such days with my friends, how we needed a long break from our capitalistic heavy on doing lifestyle, how we needed days where we did not have to do anything. But when it actually happened, the silence was almost deafening. The empty […]

In the second part of this series, I shall continue to address certain myths or misconceptions about counselling/therapy.  1. The first session is different for all Sometimes, the first session with your therapist can sound like a first date – you two are getting to know each other gradually. And other times, the session can […]

Nandita Kochar As a counselling psychologist-in-training, I work each day towards reducing the stigma around seeking help for one’s mental health. In the process, I come across many misconceptions that people have about therapy. So here is a list I wrote of some things I feel no one ever tells you about therapy. I hope […]

In reality, we all are addicts. It may not be cocaine or heroin or marijuana that we find ourselves drawn to but it might be something else.

In the troubled times that we live, anyone who is seen sitting alone at a coffee shop or at a dinner table, enjoying some food or coffee is viewed as pitiable and sad. Those around him or her make an immediate attempt to ask them to join them. It’s not acceptable to be okay and […]

Developed by Carl Rogers in the United States roughly between 1940 and 1990, person-centered counselling rests on the belief that humans at their deepest level are essentially positive, growth-oriented (self-actualizing tendency) and trustworthy. Rogers believed the human personality to be consisting of a few hypothesized psychic structures – organismic experience i.e. the total experience of […]

When was the last time someone put aside everything to listen to you?  And made you feel like every single word you said carried an important story, no matter how small or big? How did that make you feel? Significant? Accepted? Appreciated? This is the power of deep listening. I thoroughly enjoy myself when I […]

Empathy is an essential ingredient for successful counseling. Empathy allows counselors to step into our clients’ stories and experience their worlds with them so that we can forge strong bonds to build an effective therapeutic relationship that allows us to journey with our clients.  Carl Rogers made it clear that we need to listen carefully, enter the […]

Building a genuine relationship does not happen overnight. It takes a lot of little efforts and tonnes of intent to make the relationship sustain. Here are a few sayings by using which you can start the journey for both you and your partner towards a more fulfilling relationship – “I was thinking of you.” We […]

What do Positive Psychologists have to say about the time when you got so engrossed in reading a book that you became oblivious to everything else!