Priya Harpaul is a New York-based therapist and the force behind @The_Therapy_Notebook on Instagram and TikTok. During the pandemic she started the Instagram account to give back and educate the public about mental health.  Priya takes an intersectional approach to therapy knowing that our culture and how we exist in society have major influences on our mental health. Priya is on a mission to change the narrative by removing the stigma of seeking mental health services and we are here for it.  Welcome Priya

What You Will Hear:

• Identifying as Indo-Carribean.
• Impact of cultural differences and birth order.
• Respecting elders and fighting to be heard.
• Deciding to become a therapist.
• Collective cultures.
• Biases and preconceived notions in therapy.
• Understanding cultural differences.
• The influences of cultural and experience on mental health.
• Generational cycles and breaking negative patterns of behavior.
• Mental health and psychoeducation
• The Therapy Notebook- developing user friendly language for therapy
• Signs of depression that don’t appear as sadness
• What does the global majority need to do

Quotes:

“Family business stays in the family.”

“If you wanted to get help with your mental health, there weren't many people that looked like me in the therapy room.”

“The global majority do come from collective cultures and you can't do therapy from an individualistic european eurocentric lens that alienates the collective and wants to pathologize it.”

“Every teacher teaches from teachers from their cultural lens”

“One thing about therapy is we do not treat the diagnosis. We treat the person.”

Mentioned

PriyaHarpaul.com

Instagram @the_therapy_notebook

TikTok @the_therapy_notebook

CBT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy