I am a psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, a musician, and an editorial board member at Dialogues in Health journal. I come from a teaching background and have had a longstanding desire to learn about the human psyche. I wanted to know why people are the way they are, why they vary in their emotional responses, why they react differently toward the same experience, and why one person chooses a genre of music, specific food, and a type of person to date while another person makes different choices. Eventually, I decided to take the plunge, leave my teacher’s training and engineering degree behind and start my BA in applied psychology, followed by my MA in Clinical Mental Health Counselling, and along the way, I started my psychoanalytic training where my thesis was on paintings and personality. I completed my doctoral studies in psychology (PsyD) wherein I researched the impacts of music improvisation on the psyche.​​​​