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Humanism and trust are inseparable — because genuine human interactions are only possible when you believe in the person sitting across from you. • Trust in the person: Humanism begins with the conviction that each person has an inner tendency toward growth, healing, and authenticity. Even if they are buried under pain or armour, that […]

Intimacy in relationship is not just closeness — it is the willingness to be seen and to see without armour. • Emotional intimacy: Letting another into your inner world — your fears, longings, contradictions — without hiding or polishing them. • Physical intimacy: Touch, sex, affection — not only as pleasure but as a language of presence and trust. […]

Expressiveness isn’t just “nice to have” — it’s the lifeblood of being alive. A few layers of why it matters: • Expression is presence: When we let voice, movement, breath, art, or words flow, we are no longer stuck in the loop of inner defenses. We come into contact with the immediacy of life. • […]

Because when something unbearable happens, the body and psyche scramble to make sense of it. • The nervous system holds the charge — terror, shame, grief — but the mind weaves a story to explain that feeling. That story crystallizes into a belief. • Belief makes chaos predictable: If the raw truth is “the world is unsafe and I […]

• Depression / dysthymia → A background sense of emptiness, low energy, or disconnection from meaning. • Anxiety disorders → A nervous system wired for hypervigilance, always bracing for rejection or abandonment. • Attachment-related struggles (sometimes diagnosed as personality disorders, like borderline or avoidant) → Intense fear of closeness or abandonment, difficulty trusting, unstable sense of self. • […]

Somewhere along the way,empathy got branded as beginner-level. A soft skill.A baseline.The easy part of being a therapist. But if you’ve ever really needed empathy—not advice, not insight, not “holding space” in a performative sense—you know how rare it is to actually receive it. Empathy, true empathy, is not easy.It is not nodding while someone speaks.It is […]

The ego is the voice that says, “I have to be right“. Or “I already know.” Or “If they see the real me, they’ll leave.” It’s the part of us that tries to keep us safe by staying in control, hiding vulnerability, or holding tight to old stories — even if those stories are painful. […]

In humanistic therapy, change doesn’t come from someone giving you advice or telling you what’s wrong with you. It comes from being truly seen — maybe for the first time. When you sit with someone who’s fully present, who listens without judgment, and who meets you as a fellow human (not a “professional” looking down […]

You are not a problem to be solved. You are a person to be understood. Humanistic psychology is a way of seeing people that centers their full humanity — not just their symptoms, diagnoses, or behaviors. It emerged in the 1950s and 60s as a gentle rebellion against the coldness of behaviorism and the gloom […]