Daffodils Centre for Counseling & Psychotherapy

Finding acceptance and support on your journey is vital.

As a Queer-Affirmative Counseling Practitioner, Shreshtha specializes in providing a safe space for those navigating the complexities of gender identity and sexuality.

Whether you’re experiencing distress, confusion, or denial related to your gender identity, seeking a place of acceptance and understanding, battling intense emotional pain as an adolescent, grappling with shame and guilt surrounding your sexuality as a young adult, or in need of emotional and mental health support during your transition, she’ll be there to help guide you through.

Together, you can navigate these challenges and empower you to embrace your authentic self. Reach out today to start your journey towards healing and self-discovery. 💖

"🌟 Understanding Body Image 🌟

In a world that often emphasizes perfection, it's common to experience negative thoughts about our bodies. From self-criticism to comparison, these thoughts can weigh heavy on our minds and impact our self-esteem.

If you or your loved ones experience these thoughts, connect with our therapists at and explore your relationship with your body.

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Today, on World Health Day, let's remember that true health encompasses both our physical AND mental well-being. Let's break the stigma and prioritize mental health as a vital aspect of our overall wellness journey. 💙

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Contemplating, learning, evolving our perspective on Autism.

From my experiences with children and teens with autism, I've felt joy and heartache, love and surrender, embracing a spectrum of emotions. To every individual and family touched by autism, you are valued and treasured. You are more than enough 🩵💙

Mental health has always been at the core of our clinical work, guiding us in our non clinical work, internships, training, and supervision.
As we look back on 2023, we are proud to see our progress blooming like daffodils, but we are even more excited to continue growing and improving in 2024.
Join us on this journey of self-discovery and growth.

Daffodils started with the idea of sharing the human experience of being controlled and guarded through the limited understanding of life.

Through her expertise, infused her comprehensive understanding, clinical proficiency, and personal experiences as a leader into shaping Daffodils into its current form.

(Mental health, child and adolescent health, therapy, mind, psychologist, clinical psychologists, counselling psychologists, individual therapy, workshops, trainings)

Ms. Astha Nagpal was extended an invitation to provide students of psychology with valuable insights into the complexity and subtleties of the therapy environment.

As a therapist, it's truly energizing to have the opportunity to offer aspiring students and therapists a glimpse into the inner workings of the therapy room.

Team's expanding people!

As a counseling psychologist, Jasprit specializes in trauma-informed care and provides a nurturing space for growth.
Empowering adolescents and young adults on their path to self-discovery and growth. 🌟
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Healing old hurts can only begin when the children we once were feel safe enough to speak their hearts to the adults we are now 🌼

Wish you all Love & courage it takes to let go 🌞

If you’ve wondered what the therapy space offers, what talking about something can do for you, register for free for this workshop to find out..

Link is in the Bio 👆🏼

Quiet Goodbyes 🌻

Love
Asthha

📢 CHILD PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP (ONLINE/HYBRID MODE)⬇️⬇️
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Let 2024 be about feeling & healing 🤍🌼

"Thrilled to have been a presenter at ICIAHP 2023! My paper, 'The Shift in the Couch: From a Therapist’s Clinic to a Zoom Call,' dives into the evolving world of therapy – from in-person nuances to the subtleties of virtual sessions. It's a deep dive into how therapists navigate the psychodynamic landscape in the digital age.

Plus, I had the amazing opportunity to co-chair a session with the esteemed Dr. Dimpy. Dr.Dimpy Mahanta

This is indeed a milestone for the Mental Health Community, marking a time of insightful and mindful collaboration. Let's keep the conversation going!

Love is an empty canvas. It's like coming home. Home can be good, can have dark corners, awkward spaces, places you are not willing to go for reasons you cannot fathom. Love is unspoken. Love is to ask, "How are you doing today?". Love can be discomforting. Sometimes, you have to let go of your love.

In love, you become the keeper of each other's memories. You are a dreamer. He is a realist. He will tell you about the most traumatic event and forget about it, leaving you to deal with it and warn him when there is a trigger. One will work on emotions, the other will work on logistics. One will ensure emotional availability, the other will remind you of your commitments. One will write the most profound, extremely embarrassing messages; the other will struggle with expressing even basic emotions.

In love, you will fight losing battles. You will be judgmental. You will be jealous. In love, you become uncomfortable.

True love demands you to be fully liberated. When you reinvent your love and understand to lower your expectations from love. Finding everything in that one person can suffocate love. Love demands diversification. Love more, love others, love in new ways.

Love is a decision, a will, an action, a choice- you make again and again. - Garima.

Join us at a workshop, 'Unfiltered Jazbaat- Understanding male and female perspectives on love' on 17th November at GreenR, N block, Delhi. DM to know more. .of.art

Cheers 🤍

"📣 Save the Date! 📅

Dive into the essence of SheSpeaks at our inaugural event!
Join us at Greenr, GK, New Delhi, Friday, 17th November from 5 pm onwards.
Thrilled to collaborate with incredible .of.art Pouls.of.Art.
Let's come together and amplify the voices on love. 🎙️✨

Scan & Register Sooon !!

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My Co-Therapist(s)

I call them “ Salt and Pepper”

Oh, how well they snuggle into the corner of the room and fall into slumber as they snore their dreams out and I sit here with my clients trying to hear them and also let myself be in love with these two cute fur companions of mine. Well, just been fortunate to have one of these work spaces where I found Salt & Pepper.

I am amazed how they don't have many demands but rather I find them also comforting the client in tears or anxiety .. They quietly, without being instructed, usually sit beside the student to be able to comfort them in their ways. How mystical is it !??

For all the times, when I am not in session .. I let myself talk to them , absolute whining of all kinds. They definitely do demand food and ah how much i love to feed that curd spread over chapatis, yellow of the eggs, and their treats. Almost as a ritual, we look out for each other, they sniff me from a distance, as if wanting their meal of the day , and I sniff them from a distance as if wanting my love dose of the day.

Lot of students have felt safer, as seen through their smiles , their attempt at clicking them and just being free to talk more openly. Yes, I have observed the difference. As if having Salt and Pepper or either of them in the room makes us a team, communicating through the language of love , they become my co therapist to the client in need.

They really make me consider having dogs at my own center, for they are the loveliest beings, ready to love all the time and I believe, love is one essential emotion we are all fighting to taste . I never realized my love for dogs until I met one baby Rottweiler, that just as if instantly turned me into a potential dog mommy.

The times, when it is just them and me, I am able to talk to them very freely and find myself not being judged. Not always you seek words from the other, sometimes silence can also be very comforting amidst cute barks and shameless demands to rub their bellies. I must say, they have been the best company so far.

Love is what they teach me, love is what I present them.

A therapist in Awe

Listening to the most gorgeous narratives while wearing the hat of a therapist, I have often found myself stuck at certain instances where am absolutely in ‘awe’ with what is being casually blurted out by the client. “ wow, what a genius thought” . “ how cool does it sound !!” “ they are so smart” “ I must read this book they are referring to” “ wish they could see through me, they are amazing”
Being a therapist is distinctively different from being a coach, a motivational mentor because the position of therapist does not necessarily let you push them to a vision that you can see on their behalf but it insists you to be patient until the person arrives at it on their own. Sometimes, i wonder the narratives I have encapsulated consciously and unconsciously by having spent an average of 4 hours a day , 5 days a week for the last one decade . That sounds magnificent and also extremely accountable. To be a listener is a skill but I very strongly believe a lot of it is innate.. i was not born a therapist but here I am .. I became one, it definitely required a lot to take in, observe, absorb, articulate, understand .. the position offers me deep contentment amidst awful discontentment .. i am time and again, introduced to the hapless, the boring, the dissatisfied lives germinating acute discontentment to an extent of absolute silence in the chaotic background. For what creates in a therapy room, is a canvas of colors deep rooted in pain, sorrow, tears, joy, hope, resentment, envy, gratitude, bewilderment .. and I , hold the canvas in my hands from behind, soaking in the Colors from the mere shadow while they continue to relive, recreate their moments of conscious and unconscious existence.

Allow the “ freedom” you wish to seek to shape your choices and work towards it to make it solid 🌻

Absolute Pride 🇮🇳

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." 🌼

Happy Birthday Dearest Garima 🌼

Thank you for existing . You are the strongest pillar of the Daffodils , always there , holding me tight through your words , wisdom and unconditional love . You are the woman we look up to for you carry the radiance of knowledge, love , power and freedom .

We wish this year brings you more clarity towards your goals and purpose and you continue to grow younger & beautiful & radical 🌼

It takes a lot to be a woman of your kind.
Conquer it , Conquer it well 🤍

Social Media Detox 🧘🏻✨

Are you a social media addict?

Swipe ▶️ to know it for your self ..

The real dilemma lies here..

Was it love to begin with ? Or were you trapped in the city lights of adventure, high and some smoke ? Every single time , your gut refuses to admit the otherwise crafted narration you fall flat on face because you dimiss to be in awe of it. Hence, you disappoint the other. When you choose to disappoint the other, you reclaim your existence as an individual with one’s own contours and being, absolutely different from theirs. It is amazing how it then initiates a conflict of differences and power automatically becomes active ; power of control and superiority takes over as a shrewd shield to protect the otherwise hollow self of the other. Once you begin to hurt and poke the flaky side of them by mere reiteration of your independent self, you are only welcoming more chaos into the psyche of the unit you two constitutes. While communicating your feelings become a prerequisite for a healthy relation, lack of comprehension of the same serves the bigger and subtle damage one may miss to pay heed to. Constant grilling and doubt is only suggestive of the lack of trust and it further impinges on the vulnerability ever established. Withdrawing love to instigate a sense of punishment is the most brutal reaction to their anticipated loss of power and control. When does love become so watchful? When does love become a game of mind and manipulation of words? When does love become an entitlement to belittle the other? When does love become a bargain to one’s respect ?

What is truth anyway ?
Diverse versions we all are claiming as most real, most truthful . But what if you find out, it was all a mere simulation of its kind !!

-Asthha

Daffodils wishes Tanya many happy returns of the day!!

The lady in Dubai continues to make us proud with her disciplined committed being , always up for newer challenges with a tinge of smile & humility .

Wish you a fantastic year ✨