Priti Doshi Psychotherapy

08/15/2025

Friday hooky…Wave Hill!

08/08/2025

Some light summer reading! 😂

02/22/2024

06/13/2020

I’m starting a South Asian Women Therapy Group (see attached flier for details).

Many South Asians feel lost and isolated in this current social climate and because of the model minority myth, many don’t feel like they have a voice to express their feelings of otherness and how to handle their own internalized racism. In addition, talking to their immigrant parents of a different generation isn’t easy or welcomed, especially for South Asian women. Many get labeled and dismissed as angry and “too much.” In addition to race, the group will be a safe place to explore other common struggles.

This group’s focus will be to build community and feel less alone in processing what it means to identify as South Asian in the US and across the globe.

04/06/2020

An incredibly timely website has recently launched for FIRST RESPONDERS across the nation. Coronavirusonlinetherapy.com is an online therapy website to help those on the front line during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many therapists, including myself, are offering free and low cost therapy to these HEROES - everyone who puts themselves at risk to show up everyday and take care of us. Please let me know if you are or know of anyone on the FRONT LINE who needs to connect with a licensed clinician. Contact me via email, FB, or this website.

Short-term, pro-bono and reduced fee online therapy for those on the front line during the Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic.

04/04/2020

You’ve focused on how to take care of yourself physically, but how about taking care of yourself mentally?

It’s natural to worry and even panic during this time. We have been given a checklist to ensure our physical safety during this pandemic…masks, gloves, wiping down, social distancing, staying in…all of these speak to the ways to ensure that we don’t get physically sick.

However studies are showing that if this is our sole focus, we will suffer emotionally during this challenging time. If you overly worry and even worse, catastrophize as a way of dealing with the current crisis, it can negatively impact your immune system, and thus conjoining the mental and the physical. If we compromise our brains, we compromise our bodies. During this time it’s important to find ways to take care of our minds. Just like we have a tool box for our physical health, we need a similar one for our emotional well being. This is not an easy task, especially for those of who have used anxiety as a way of coping with life. Now more than ever it’s absolutely necessary to take care of our mental health. If you are interested in learning more about how to strengthen your emotional and mental well being, please reach out to a mental health provider. Although these activities can be done solo, they are much more effective when you learn these tools while working with a safe and knowledgeable mental health professional.

Currently many therapists are offering Telehealth sessions and insurance companies have relaxed their requirements, making mental health support more accessible to all in need. Why not take the opportunity?

04/03/2020

Sociologist Eric Klinenberg and clinical psychologist Dr. Orna Guralnik talk to Amanpour about the impact social distancing is having on our relationships.

04/03/2020

Life in Quarantine: It’s hard to be alone, but it’s just as hard to be together

Dr. Orna Guralnik (psychoanalyst and couples therapist) and Eric Klinenberg (sociologist) talk about the challenges that couples and families are facing during this time. How do couples navigate their different ways of handling the crisis? From everything to social distancing to watching the news, how do we create a system where different needs can be met? This time could be an opportunity for a couple struggling, to seek help to understand their relationship better and hopefully strengthen it in the process. If you and your partner are having a tough time during this quarantine, please reach out for help.

Sociologist Eric Klinenberg and clinical psychologist Dr. Orna Guralnik talk to Amanpour about the impact social distancing is having on our relationships.

04/02/2020

Positives from the lockdown can have their limitations

There is a lot of “positive psychology” floating around the internet these days under the guise of “look at the silver lining”- start a new book, spend time with your kids and family, find ways to connect with people in your life, use outlets like yoga, meditation and mindfulness, the list can go on. However there are plenty of us hiding in shame during this crisis and thus are unable to access these tools. The lack of connection and isolation can be a re-traumatizing experience, heightening anxiety and fear. The terror of today is sending us back to the terror of the past. If you are struggling in the current environment, please reach out to a mental health professional or a support group. This can be an opportunity to start working through these core issues and begin the healing process.

We are in this together but we are all not experiencing it in the same way.

No one is failing. We are all doing our best.

03/31/2020

“We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.” - Gabor Mate