Safe Space

The stories we tell ourselves

I find myself fatigued from the news cycle lately, a precarious position to be in…

The irony of work-life balance

One of the frequently asked questions during Mental Health Awareness Month is how to achieve…

Beyond warning signs

Mental Health Awareness Month continues this October. Most activities and programs are geared toward detecting…

Freedom and personal responsibility

It so happened that our module on existential psychotherapy coincided with the students’ “hell week,”…

In pursuit of ginhawa

October is Mental Health Awareness Month. It’s a tumultuous time, with ongoing investigations into corruption…

Protecting psychometricians via supervision

The national conference for psychologists and psychometricians last week ended in a contentious manner, to…

Post-rally: Now what?

The rallies and protests last Sunday were a success as a setting for people to…

Sustaining energy during a political upheaval

As an opinion writer, the rapidly unfolding political developments are both a boon and a…

Reckoning and hope

It is that time in the semester when I teach my students about managing suicide…

Understanding corruption

In psychotherapy class, I gave my students a radical thought experiment: Could you build empathy…