I moved to the UK when I was 16. With £500 in my pocket as my starting capital, I had to come up with solutions very fast. I graduated as an Economics and Business major and built a career in Economics and Consulting over the course of 12 years. It was a challenging and a fun career, I got a chance to consult  companies across major industries on their strategy as well as being involved in all aspects of building a business.

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As much as I enjoyed business, I had always been passionate about psychology and started taking classes back in high school.  I started doing more and more research and I got trained in several mind body techniques that resonated with me, before embarking on the UKCP Psychotherapist training programme at the College. As I was going through my own life crisis, anxiety struggles, and my relationships taking a hit, I ended up in a therapist's chair myself, as a client.

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Psychotherapy helped me deal with my own crisis, anxiety and attachment struggles and create a healthier relationship with food (I was a yo yo dieter in my younger years and emotional eating was a part of my life before I created a healthier relationship with it and as a by-product I lost around 60 pounds without dieting or restricting myself), quit smoking (I used to be a heavy smoker for 10 years before quitting back in 2014), help me create a better relationship with myself in general, become more assertive (as someone who worked in senior leadership and coached people in high pressure environments I am very familiar with stresses and the potential for burnout that a working environment can bring) and adjust to life in a new country and go through stages that arise with immigration.

 

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