Last night, 13-year-old Faizan Zaki of Plano, Texas, won the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Including Faizan, whose parents emigrated from India, 30 of the past 36 champions have been Indian Americans.... Read more »
Have you ever realized, years later, that you’ve been performing a version of yourself to fit in—and didn’t even know you were doing it? For many autistic people, this is the reality... Read more »
Addiction doesn’t arise in isolation. For many individuals, it follows years of emotional adversity, trauma, nutrient depletion, and gut dysfunction. People experiencing addiction often eat poorly or erratically, lack access to high-quality... Read more »
Alexithymia is difficulty identifying and expressing emotions. Parental rejection involves cold, critical, or emotionally distant parenting. When children experience rejection, they may not learn how to recognize or manage emotions, increasing the... Read more »
The John Templeton Foundation awarded me a $3.57 million grant in 2017 for the Enhancing Practice-Based Evidence for Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapies project. This project addressed the question, “Can the wisdom, values, and... Read more »
One of my specialties is working with clients in individual therapy in combination with their experience in couples therapy. Oftentimes when two people engage in couples therapy, the work starts out on... Read more »
An AI recently tried to blackmail its way out of being shut down. In testing by Anthropic, their most advanced model, Claude Opus 4, didn’t accept its fate when told it would... Read more »
In today’s world, we are rarely out of reach. From the moment we wake up, our phones buzz with notifications, our email inboxes never sleep, and even during our downtime, we are... Read more »
Have you ever had a brilliant idea while falling asleep or woken up with the perfect solution to a problem? You’ve experienced what experts call “threshold consciousness” – those altered mental states... Read more »
Is your weekly appointment just a time to vent? What do you do when your therapy seems to be going nowhere? Beyond the Honeymoon Chances are, you came to therapy because you... Read more »