While Instagram is a great platform to create awareness, Ladhani says it's also becoming a place for marketing and advertising mental health services and solutions. For example, she recalls a client mentioning how they saw a friend posting on Instagram that they felt their emotional issues were sorted after two months of therapy by going to a certain person. "They asked me when they would have that kind of breakthrough. But therapy is a journey, a process. It's different for different people," Ladhani says.
— MINT LOUNGE, 20 FEB 2022
“Ladhani explains this insecurity, “Our first impressions are influenced by a number of factors, such as facial shape, vocal inflection, attractiveness, and general emotional state. We tend to get attached to the initial impressions of others and find it very difficult to change our opinion, even when presented with lots of evidence to the contrary. Imagine we have a set of big boxes in our mind. Each box has a ‘trait’ as a marker, and if a person fits a particular trait, we fit them in a box. This is how biases are formed.” Sometimes, these biases are based on completely false premises.”
— NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, 19 SEP 2021
“Shaifila Ladhani, a New Delhi-based psychotherapist, observes that more than 80 percent of her current roster of clients have signs of burnout across genders, occupations and age brackets. “There has been little mention of burnout in India, but the way Indians work, it has been an epidemic in the making for a very long time. If one person is expected to do many things at the same time without any systemic support, they will certainly experience burnout. It stems from increased responsibilities at work and home, lack of proper pay structure, saturated incomes, and little or no support from co-workers,” she asserts.”
— NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, 4 JUL 2021
“One fundamental difference is that in a diary, you explore your own thoughts and feelings, as a whole. A gratitude journal is focused more on the language of gratefulness and giving thanks. This is why it is not a one size fits all practice. A diary allows exploration of both good and bad, in a gratitude journal, the focus is on finding the goods majorly. In my experience, everybody has their own rhythm for this. Some people like to do it daily, others do it once a week.”
— GRAZIA MAGAZINE, 18 MAY 2021
“Ladhani says that she is still training herself to reinforce the boundaries between her clients and her. Other professionals reiterate how the camaraderie of a support group, where they could open up about their feelings, was an advantage.”
— NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, 10 OCT 2021
Talks conducted in Past:
A gift from Mann Mela
A talk conducted with MBBS students about acknowledging and understanding queer mental health in medical settings.
COSAS is a community for psychology students. Conducted a talk on Master's in Ambedkar University admissions.
Mann Mela was Ludhiana's first Mental Health event held offline. It was a one day event by Initiators of Change, an NGO from Ludhiana.
Psy-fy is the official college society of Fergusson College, Pune. Conducted a talk with 100+ psychology students about Dream Analysis.
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, 2015