Dr Prerna Kohli

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Children’s Mental Health: What Every Parent Should Know

It’s a question many parents hesitate to ask out loud, almost as if naming it makes it more real: can...

Raising Emotionally Healthy Children: A Psychologist’s Guide

Every parent wants the same thing: for their children to grow into healthy, loving, confident adults. The good news is...

The Psychology of Smell: Why Scent Lifts Your Mood

Catch a whiff of a particular perfume, or bread baking, or the first rain on dry earth, and you’re suddenly...

Divorce Counselling: How It Helps at Every Stage

Divorce is one of the hardest transitions a person can live through — and it is rarely a single moment...

Meditation for Happiness: How to Start, and Why It Works

Meditation has a slightly mystical reputation, but at heart it’s simple and practical: a few quiet minutes of training your...

Chanting for Happiness: How a Mantra Calms and Lifts the Mind

There’s something undeniably soothing about chanting — the repetition, the rhythm, the sound filling the room and settling the mind...

The Psychological Benefits of Patriotism: Why Belonging Matters

For many of us, the national anthem or the sight of the flag rising on Independence Day stirs something real...

The Psychological Benefits of Exercise: How Movement Lifts Your Mind

We tend to talk about exercise as something we do for our bodies. But some of its most powerful effects...

Why a Daily Coffee Is Good for Your Mental Health — and It’s Not the Caffeine

I’ll admit my bias up front: I start almost every day with a cappuccino, and I’m a firm believer that...