An Open Letter to God and Prayers for peace Dear God: * You know that we Iranian people are working hard to make sense of the unfolding events back home that hurt our souls constantly ……. * You know that we are trying to comprehend the tyranny forced upon us, the bemoaning culture put…
Author: Poran Poregbal
My name is Poran Poregbal. I am a licenced - registered clinical counsellor and registered social worker. My practice of counselling psychology is based on a culturally and trauma-informed basis. I am offering individual and couple counselling sessions.
I am offering treatment for symptoms of Emotional Disorders such as Anxiety, Depression, Obsession, Phobia, Trauma, and Post Trauma Stress.
In my practice of Counselling Psychology, I do pay attention to my client's history, sense of self, level of motivation for change, resiliency level and the existence of past traumas in life. At times, a couple of sessions of clinical counselling helps individuals to appreciate their patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. We can learn to understand the meaning of our emotions and to develop kindness to ourselves. Change of habits and mindset requires hard work; Still possible.
Our Mothers Recycling Business
Our mothers knew about Recycling Business long before us. How? Read this. Culture is the sum of behaviours, thoughts, perceptions, ideas, life styles, events, habits, and knowledge that are shared among a group of people. One of those shared ideas is the everyday life of people, the implicit and the explicit form of it, the…
Relationship (Rabete)
Let’s see if we could evaluate our relationships? In every relationship there are ways to fall into darkness of doubt and anger. Evaluation or checking out our ways of behaving in a relationship is a good measure for ourselves, if we are interested to know what is going on. We can also evaluate how our…
Mental health issues and Depression
In our Iranian culture In those old good days, our Iranian culture considered depression being a “luxury illness”, something just for the “rich people” who were tired of all the privileges in life and did not know what to do next!” a type of illness just for the upper middle class ! Now we know…
Salamati Roh va Ravan
Our mental health or salamti roh va ravan has a direct relationship to something that has been forced upon us and has been taken away from us: Our personal choice! In our Iranian culture, usually we do not have many choices. We are constantly forced to do things that we do not like; we are…