Compassionate
You will not be hurried, and you will not have to present your difficulty in a tidy or impressive way for it to be taken seriously.
About
Hello, I'm Isha Roy.
A psychology graduate trying to make psychological understanding calm, accurate and genuinely usable in ordinary life.
PSYOURA began with a question I could not stop turning over. Psychology organises itself almost entirely around people who meet a diagnostic threshold, and most people who struggle never do. They are tired, stretched, stuck, quietly unhappy, and not unwell enough to be anyone's priority. That group is enormous, and it is largely unserved.
I hold an MSc in Clinical Health Psychology from the University of Strathclyde, awarded with Merit, and a BA (Hons) in Applied Psychology from Amity University, Kolkata. My applied experience includes Anubhav Positive Psychology Clinic, Apollo Multispeciality Hospitals, and Nabajatak Child Development Centre, where I worked with children with autism and ADHD.
Working alongside children and families taught me something I still carry into every conversation: people communicate distress in whatever way is available to them, and the first job is always to understand rather than to correct.
Through PSYOURA I have delivered psychology-focused webinars for community students, preparing materials, explaining concepts, answering questions and facilitating discussion. That teaching work is where all of this started. I kept noticing how much lighter people felt simply because someone had explained clearly what was happening to them.
My own way in
How I got here.
This part is personal rather than professional. It is here because you have a right to know what the person writing all of this is working from.
I have played table tennis since I was seven. It taught me to think quickly and under pressure, and I suspect it is where my habit of analysing everything began. It also taught me what wanting to be the best does to a person. Tournaments frightened me far more than I ever let on.
Somewhere in there I started thinking about everything. Every situation, every room, every conversation. What I did not notice at the time was that all of that thinking had quietly turned into being unsure of myself.
Then something happened that I am not going to write about here. It is mine and it stays mine. What matters for this page is what I did with it, which was carry it alone. Not to protect myself. To keep it off my parents.
I tried getting help twice as a teenager and could not be honest either time. Both times somebody was willing to listen. Both times I could not say the true thing out loud. I have thought about that a great deal since, and it is the single fact that shapes this whole website.
About two years later I told my middle sister, because it had become too heavy to keep carrying on my own. That is when the weight finally started to move.
What actually helped
Not one thing. My parents, who have backed every choice my sisters and I have made. My sisters. A few friends. Education, which gave me somewhere solid to put my attention. And a decision I made somewhere in my late teens to keep facing forward rather than back.
I want to be careful here, because this is a psychoeducation site and I am not going to overstate it. So I will say it as what it is: this is my experience, not a method, and not a claim about what will work for you. Staying pointed at what was growing, instead of at what had happened, is what got me through. Other people need other things. Some people need professional help, and reaching for it is a route, not a failure. Mine simply did not start there.
Where psychology came in
Long before I ever studied it, I was already doing a rough version of it. I asked people how they were and I actually meant it. I listened. That came from somewhere simple: I knew exactly what it felt like to have nowhere to put something, and I did not want anybody near me to feel that.
Just before university my sister told me to look properly into psychology. I did, and something settled. The help I had wanted and could not reach, I could be that for somebody else. Not as a rescue. As somewhere to stand.
Why the site is built the way it is
All of this was designed by somebody who has sat in front of a person willing to help and still not been able to speak. That is why nothing here is stored, nothing is sent anywhere, the reflective tools keep no record of what you tap or type, and the contact form will never ask you for your history. You can use every part of this without telling me a single thing about yourself.
I am twenty three as I write this. Some of my childhood went on things a child should not have to hold, and I am not going to pretend that was fine. But the version of me who was fifteen would be proud of the person writing this, and that counts for something.
Who this is for
If you are trying to grow and there is nobody showing you how, this is for you. If you have the potential and none of the guidance, this is for you. If you have ever needed one place where you could say the true version of something, that is what I am trying to build here.
this space is not mine, it is yours
the thread through
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Research
Emotional regulation, health, and the world outside the window.
My research interests sit where emotional regulation, mental health and health psychology meet. My MSc dissertation examined nature-based experiences and emotional regulation among adults experiencing mental health difficulties and / or long-term health conditions, how time spent in and with the natural world features in the way people manage what they feel.
It shapes how I work. I am drawn to non-pharmacological, everyday, low-barrier approaches to wellbeing: the things a person can actually reach for on a difficult Tuesday. I also have an emerging interest in how nature-based experiences and imagery-based approaches may intersect with emotional regulation, an open research question I hope to pursue, and not something PSYOURA offers as an intervention.
How I work
Compassionate, non-judgemental, evidence-informed, person-centred, and curious.
Non-judgemental
There is no correct way to feel. You can say the unedited version of something and have it met calmly.
Evidence-informed
I will tell you plainly where the evidence is strong, where it is mixed, and where something is outside what I can offer.
Person-centred
You set the direction. My role is to help you see your own experience more clearly, not to hand you conclusions about it.
Curious
Understanding before judgement, every time. It is also simply more interesting.
Culturally aware
Having studied and worked in more than one country, I know the words people have for emotional difficulty differ enormously from place to place, and that somebody can be struggling without having any of the usual language for it.
About my professional title. I am a psychology graduate and MSc Clinical Health Psychology graduate. I am not a Clinical Psychologist, Chartered Psychologist, registered counsellor or licensed therapist, and I do not diagnose, treat or carry out clinical psychological assessment. What PSYOURA offers is psychology-informed wellbeing support, psychoeducation and space for self-understanding. If what you need falls outside that, I will say so and help you think about where to go next.
On record
Qualifications and experience
Education & research
- MSc Clinical Health Psychology, awarded with MeritUniversity of Strathclyde
- BA (Hons) Applied PsychologyAmity University, Kolkata
- MSc dissertation: nature-based experiences and emotional regulation among adults experiencing mental health difficulties and / or long-term health conditionsResearch
- Qualitative psychology research; emotional regulation, mental health and wellbeing researchAreas of work
Applied experience
- Experience in a positive psychology clinic settingAnubhav Positive Psychology Clinic
- Hospital-based experienceApollo Multispeciality Hospitals
- Child development setting, including work with children with autism and ADHDNabajatak Child Development Centre
- Psychology education webinars for community studentsPSYOURA
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