Understanding Anxiety in Kenya: Why Your Body Feels Like It’s Always Waiting for Bad News
Tue, Feb 24, 2026
It starts before you are fully awake. Three in the morning, and your eyes are open, your mind already running. Not thinking about anything specific, just a low, humming dread, like your body is braced for an impact that never comes. By the time the alarm goes off, you are already exhausted. During the day, […]
Basic Counseling Skills Every Kenyan Should Have (Even If You’re Not a Therapist)
Fri, Feb 20, 2026
You’re Already Counseling — You Just Don’t Know It Yet Imagine a colleague breaks down in the office kitchen after a phone call. A church member pulls you aside after the service, eyes red, voice shaking. Your teenage daughter comes home from school and slams her bedroom door. In each of these moments, someone is […]
From Corporate Banking to Counseling Psychology, One Graduate’s Journey
Tue, Feb 17, 2026
The email sat in his drafts folder for eleven days. Moses had rewritten it so many times that the words had started to blur. But on that Tuesday morning, sitting in his corner office on the fourteenth floor of a glass tower along Westlands Road, he pressed send. Two weeks later, he walked out of […]
Love Languages and Mental Health: What Healthy Relationships Actually Look Like
Fri, Feb 13, 2026
A Therapist’s Valentine’s Day Truth Valentine’s Day. The restaurant is dim, candlelit. Sarah sits across from her partner, the bouquet of red roses resting in her lap. Heavy. Expensive. Her love language is Receiving Gifts, and he remembered. But her stomach is in knots. Because yesterday, he screamed at her in front of his family. […]
When Supporting Others Costs You Everything: Rebuilding Your Capacity to Care
Tue, Feb 10, 2026
You became a caregiver to heal others. But you can’t pour from an empty cup. Here’s how to refill yours and keep serving with excellence. Your alarm goes off at 5:15 AM. Again. Your body knows before your mind does. Your chest tightens. The familiar dread settles in your stomach like a stone. You are […]
5 Signs Your Organization Needs Employee Wellness Training
Fri, Feb 6, 2026
6:15 AM. Thika industrial area. David pulls into the factory parking lot, gravel crunching under tires. Truck engines rumble from the loading bay. Welding sparks spray orange against the grey morning. The smell of burnt coffee drifts from the break room—someone left the pot on overnight again. He’s been operations manager here for eight years. […]
How Mental Health Training Strengthens Communities and Workplaces
Tue, Feb 3, 2026
Monday morning, 8:47 AM. Sarah sits at her desk on the eighth floor, navy blazer perfectly pressed, hair pulled back tight. From a distance, she looks fine. But her fingers aren’t moving. The cursor blinks. Blinks. Blinks. She doesn’t see it. Around her, office life hums: printers whirring, tea trolley clinking, traffic honking eight floors […]
Can You Study Psychology Without a Psychology Background?
Fri, Jan 30, 2026
It’s never a loud question. It doesn’t announce itself in meetings. It doesn’t trend on LinkedIn. It sits quietly, somewhere between curiosity and caution. You find yourself thinking about psychology not academically at first, but practically. In how people behave. In why certain conversations drain you, and others don’t. In why you keep being the […]