Mental Wealth Therapy & Counseling

07/23/2026

You are not lazy.
You are not too sensitive.
You are not ungrateful.

You are running a nervous system that has been in overdrive for years — and it is finally asking you to stop.

This is South Asian burnout. And it is not the same as regular burnout.

Regular burnout: doing too much. Rest is the solution.

Nervous system dysregulation: a body that has lost the capacity to rest properly. You can sleep 8 hours and wake up depleted. Take a vacation and come back just as exhausted.

The solution isn’t more rest. It’s rebuilding your nervous system’s capacity to receive rest.

This month I’ve been writing about ADHD, somatized trauma, and the nervous system. This is the final piece.

Full blog → link in bio

07/23/2026

After 16 years with CRPS and 26 years as a psychologist — I’m building something that doesn’t exist yet.

A CRPS coaching community led by someone who is both the clinician AND the patient.

Starting September.

It covers what the medical system never addresses:
→ The grief that keeps recurring
→ Emotional regulation for a dysregulated nervous system
→ Identity work — who you are alongside this condition, not despite it
→ Relationships and intimacy when touch hurts
→ Peer support with people who actually get it

Pilot cohort: $397 one-time (or 2x $199)
Open worldwide. Limited spots.

Join the waitlist → link in bio

November: family member cohort launching. More soon.
After 16 years with CRPS and 26 years as a psychologist — I’m building something that doesn’t exist yet.

A CRPS coaching community led by someone who is both the clinician AND the patient.

Starting September.

It covers what the medical system never addresses:
→ The grief that keeps recurring
→ Emotional regulation for a dysregulated nervous system
→ Identity work — who you are alongside this condition, not despite it
→ Relationships and intimacy when touch hurts
→ Peer support with people who actually get it

Pilot cohort: $397 one-time (or 2x $199)
Open worldwide. Limited spots.

Join the waitlist → link in bio

November: family member cohort launching. More soon.

07/17/2026

When people search for CRPS information, they find information about pain.

What they don't find is what CRPS does to your mind.

After 16 years with this condition — and 26 years as a psychologist — here's what I know:

The psychological impact of CRPS is as significant as the physical one.

And almost entirely unaddressed by the medical system.

→ The grief that keeps recurring, not just once
→ The identity shift — who you were before doesn't fit anymore
→ What hypersensitivity does to intimacy and relationships
→ The psychological cost of being disbelieved
→ What therapy and coaching actually address (it's not positive thinking)

Full blog: https://www.mentalwealthinc.com/blog/crps-psychological-impact-mental-health

September CRPS coaching community waitlist is open. All Links in bio.

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A psychologist with 16 years of lived CRPS experience explores the psychological impact of CRPS — grief, identity, intimacy, and what therapy and coaching actually address.

07/10/2026

07/10/2026

Your body has been trying to tell you something your family told you to ignore.

Headaches. Stomach issues. Chest tightness. Fatigue that sleep doesn't fix. Tests that come back normal. And somewhere in the background, the message: you're being dramatic.

Here's what's actually happening: when emotional pain has nowhere to go — when the culture doesn't have language for it, when there's no safe space to say "I am not okay" — the body becomes the place that carries it.

This is somatization. And it is extraordinarily common in South Asian women who have spent their lives being the capable one, the quiet one, the one who doesn't add to anyone's burden.

Your body is not betraying you. It is trying to get your attention.

New blog: why South Asian women carry stress in their bodies, what the research shows about chronic stress and physical health, and what therapy for this actually looks like.

Read: https://www.mentalwealthinc.com/blog/south-asian-somatized-trauma-body

07/10/2026

Your body has been trying to tell you something your family told you to ignore.

Headaches. Stomach issues. Chest tightness. Fatigue that sleep doesn't fix. Tests that come back normal. And somewhere in the background, the message: you're being dramatic.

Here's what's actually happening: when emotional pain has nowhere to go — when the culture doesn't have language for it, when there's no safe space to say "I am not okay" — the body becomes the place that carries it.

This is somatization. And it is extraordinarily common in South Asian women who have spent their lives being the capable one, the quiet one, the one who doesn't add to anyone's burden.

Your body is not betraying you. It is trying to get your attention.

New blog: why South Asian women carry stress in their bodies, what the research shows about chronic stress and physical health, and what therapy for this actually looks like.

Read: https://www.mentalwealthinc.com/blog/south-asian-somatized-trauma-body

South Asian psychologist explores how trauma and stress show up as physical symptoms in South Asian women — and why families often dismiss them.

07/07/2026

For most of my adult life, I avoided the word "disabled."

I had CRPS. I had daily pain. But I also functioned — I worked, showed up, managed. And somewhere in that managing was a quiet belief that because I pushed through, I didn't really qualify.

This is internalized ableism. The shame of not being sick enough to count. And it's extraordinarily common among people with chronic pain and invisible illness.

Disability Pride Month is not about celebrating suffering. It's about releasing the performance of wellness we never asked to maintain. About acknowledging that functioning through pain is not the same as not having pain.

High-functioning and disabled. Both true. Simultaneously.

New blog on what disability pride actually means for people with CRPS and chronic pain.

Read full blog here: https://www.mentalwealthinc.com/blog/disability-pride-month-why-im-claiming-the-word-disabledhttps://www.mentalwealthinc.com

To join the September CRPS Coaching waitlist, contact me at: [email protected] and I will send you the no commitment form.

07/06/2026

Nearly 28% of women presenting to anxiety clinics had undetected ADHD.

Not instead of anxiety — underneath it, alongside it, masked by it.

For South Asian women, this number is likely even higher. We have a particular talent for hiding our struggles. The model minority mask — "you're too smart, too capable, too high-achieving to have ADHD" — is extraordinarily effective at concealing a dysregulated nervous system underneath straight As and color-coded planners.

Female ADHD doesn't look like a hyperactive little boy. It looks like a woman who manages everything, built elaborate compensatory systems, was told she just needed to try harder — and has been exhausted for years despite doing everything right.

The systems aren't evidence you're fine. They're evidence of how hard you've been working to appear fine.

Late diagnosis offers something the past didn't: an accurate understanding of yourself. And with that, the possibility of support that actually works.

New blog: is it anxiety or undiagnosed ADHD? What South Asian women need to know.

Read: mentalwealthinc.com/blog/anxiety-or-adhd-south-asian-women

07/06/2026

Nearly 1 in 3 women presenting to anxiety clinics had undetected ADHD.

For South Asian women, that number is likely higher.

Because we are exceptionally good at hiding our struggles — even from the clinicians trying to help us.

Here’s why ADHD gets missed in South Asian women:

→ “You’re too smart to have ADHD” — the model minority mask
→ Female ADHD looks like anxiety, not hyperactivity
→ The elaborate systems you built to appear fine are masking a dysregulated nervous system
→ Anxiety often develops ON TOP of undiagnosed ADHD — not instead of it

Late diagnosis isn’t a devastation. For many South Asian women, it’s the first time the pieces finally make sense.

Full blog → link in bio

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07/02/2026

This is Disability Pride Month.

And for the first time, I’m writing publicly about what living with CRPS has actually looked like.

I was diagnosed 16 years ago. I was also already a practicing psychologist.

Knowing exactly what I was facing didn’t make it easier.

Here’s what nobody tells you at diagnosis:

→ They don’t tell you about the grief
→ They don’t tell you how exhausting it is to appear fine
→ They don’t tell you what it does to intimacy
→ They don’t tell you about the disbelief — from providers, family, everyone

And here’s what actually helped — not the clinical version. The real one.

And if you’re living with CRPS: I’m building something for you. September launch.

Join the Waitlist (no commitment) →
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfyUwBR6U7E0hK4CLjwh6jdroBL50itdFIkwE0I57gxmbwow/viewform?usp=header

Full blog → https://www.mentalwealthinc.com/blog/what-nobody-tells-you-crps