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Blog /Breakfree Podcast Series | EP 2 - Afifa Kauser, “Breaking up with your therapist”

A safe space to unlearn and overcome patterns, habits, situations and relationships that don’t serve our well-being or hold us back.

Fri Mar 22 2024|iDare Team


Welcome to iDare presents Breakfree. A safe space to unlearn and overcome patterns, habits, situations and relationships that don’t serve our well-being or hold us back. 

 

We all have things we need to let go off, and today we are going talk about letting go of “the misconceptions around therapy”. 

 

On this podcast we have with us Afifa Kauser, who is a psychologist and founder of @letstalkhealing. Come join this conversation to know about her journey of becoming a psychologist, what it means to be sensitive and empathetic, misconceptions about therapy, how to trust therapy after having a bad experience, therapy in the Indian household and much more.

 

Audio Podcast: Spotify Breakfree Ep 2

Timestamps :

00:00 - Intro

00:42 - Afifa’s journey to becoming a psychologist

07:50 - “You’re Highly-sensitive” | Being sensitive isn’t a weakness

13:51 - Discovering Empathy through Religion

17:43 - Internships & the importance of unlearning

22:56 - Theories of Change - 5 Stages

29:18 - Misconceptions about therapy

32:20 - Trusting a therapist after an unpleasant experience

36:50 - Intersectionality and Mental Health

38:36 - Breaking up with your therapist

44:04 - Myths around therapy

47:07 - Therapy in Indian households

52:08 - Afifa’s iDare Moment

 

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