In 2012 Bhavna started her own business, Alive! Psychology, duly named because of her passion for life.
'I
believe life needs to be experienced fully. To "exist" or "get by" is
not doing life justice. Through therapy and mindfulness I found my
passion for life and discovered the ability to live life fully with all
it has to offer - the good and the bad. This is what I want my clients
to experience - to find their way of reconnecting with life and
expressing who they are fully. This is the basis of the Self-Love Approach, which is a way of life that emerged from my own mindfulness experiences and has been transformed into a therapeutic approach.'
From
the Self-Love Approach perspective, depression/anxiety (and other mood
states) are understood to be a natural response to living in a
self-abusive relationship.
In essence Self-Love is about changing
your abusive relationship to yourself to a more loving way of being. The
map and tools contain ways to stop the verbal, psychological and
physical abuse so many of us unconsciously do, as well as teaching how
to build a healthy relationship to yourself.
The Self-Love
approach gives skills that work, are easily integrated into daily life
practices, and complement other therapeutic approaches.
Bhavna Nagar
BA, BA Honors in Psychology, MA (Clinical Psychology), UNISA (South Africa), NZ Registered