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Ahona Guha

Brisbane Times

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Losing a pet can be as painful as any other bereavement – but there are some differences

Last week, I sat in the emergency department of a veterinary hospital for hours with my 12-year-old greyhound, Karla. She’d woken screaming in...

15.02.2026 150

The Guardian

Ahona Guha

When families split like the Beckhams, it’s often a result of dismissal and control

In my clinical experience, adult children will have tried to repair relationships with family members but have been met with blame or further abuse.

21.01.2026 10

WA Today

Ahona Guha

When families split like the Beckhams, it’s often a result of dismissal and control

In my clinical experience, adult children will have tried to repair relationships with family members but have been met with blame or further abuse.

21.01.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Ahona Guha

When families split like the Beckhams, it’s often a result of dismissal and control

In my clinical experience, adult children will have tried to repair relationships with family members but have been met with blame or further abuse.

21.01.2026 9

The Age

Ahona Guha

When families split like the Beckhams, it’s often a result of dismissal and control

In my clinical experience, adult children will have tried to repair relationships with family members but have been met with blame or further abuse.

21.01.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Ahona Guha

Caroline felt she was doomed to dating failure. Learning to sit with sadness was part of overcoming her loneliness

04.01.2026 20

The Guardian

Ahona Guha

As a trauma expert, here’s how to look after yourself and others after a tragedy like Bondi

Over the next few weeks, months and even years, many Australians will be struggling to process their experiences of Sunday night. Trauma is normal and...

15.12.2025 10

WA Today

Ahona Guha

As a trauma expert, here’s how to look after yourself and others after a tragedy like Bondi

Over the next few weeks, months and even years, many Australians will be struggling to process their experiences of Sunday night. Trauma is normal and...

15.12.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Ahona Guha

As a trauma expert, here’s how to look after yourself and others after a tragedy like Bondi

Over the next few weeks, months and even years, many Australians will be struggling to process their experiences of Sunday night. Trauma is normal and...

15.12.2025 10

The Age

Ahona Guha

As a trauma expert, here’s how to look after yourself and others after a tragedy like Bondi

Over the next few weeks, months and even years, many Australians will be struggling to process their experiences of Sunday night. Trauma is normal and...

15.12.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Ahona Guha

Distressing videos can have a lasting impact – here’s how to look after yourself in the wake of the Bondi attack

15.12.2025 30

The Guardian

Ahona Guha

Body-cam footage shows police coaching a father who murdered his family. As a psychologist, I’m enraged

Weeks before Rowan Baxter murdered his former partner Hannah Clarke and their three children, he was visited by police who appeared to offer advice on...

20.11.2025 10

WA Today

Ahona Guha

Body-cam footage shows police coaching a father who murdered his family. As a psychologist, I’m enraged

Weeks before Rowan Baxter murdered his former partner Hannah Clarke and their three children, he was visited by police who appeared to offer advice on...

20.11.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Ahona Guha

Body-cam footage shows police coaching a father who murdered his family. As a psychologist, I’m enraged

Weeks before Rowan Baxter murdered his former partner Hannah Clarke and their three children, he was visited by police who appeared to offer advice on...

20.11.2025 10

The Age

Ahona Guha

Body-cam footage shows police coaching a father who murdered his family. As a psychologist, I’m enraged

Weeks before Rowan Baxter murdered his former partner Hannah Clarke and their three children, he was visited by police who appeared to offer advice on...

20.11.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Ahona Guha

Racist voices are becoming louder and moving into the mainstream. How can I help my client feel safe?

28.09.2025 10

The Guardian

Ahona Guha

Pregnancy is already a stressful, fraught time. Trump just made it worse

It’s tempting to scoff at the US government’s advice on paracetamol. But for pregnant women, it adds anxiety to one of the most psychologically...

23.09.2025 6

WA Today

Ahona Guha

Pregnancy is already a stressful, fraught time. Trump just made it worse

It’s tempting to scoff at the US government’s advice on paracetamol. But for pregnant women, it adds anxiety to one of the most psychologically...

23.09.2025 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Ahona Guha

Pregnancy is already a stressful, fraught time. Trump just made it worse

It’s tempting to scoff at the US government’s advice on paracetamol. But for pregnant women, it adds anxiety to one of the most psychologically...

23.09.2025 7

The Age

Ahona Guha

Pregnancy is already a stressful, fraught time. Trump just made it worse

It’s tempting to scoff at the US government’s advice on paracetamol. But for pregnant women, it adds anxiety to one of the most psychologically...

23.09.2025 8

Brisbane Times

Ahona Guha

Patterson’s sentence answers one question. But the two most important remain unanswered

As a forensic psychologist, I was particularly surprised when I tuned into Justice Christopher Beale’s verdict on Monday morning.

08.09.2025 10

The Age

Ahona Guha

My client attended therapy because he was mandated to. Making progress to stop his use of child exploitation material was vital

31.08.2025 20

The Guardian

Ahona Guha

I’ve worked with so-called sovereign citizens. They all believe they’re special

As tempting as it might be to brush off far-right and extremist beliefs as silly or inconsequential, the threat they pose is becoming more real every...

27.08.2025 9

The Age

Ahona Guha

I escaped a cult – for years I didn’t even realise I was in one

I have long hidden the shame that I was gullible enough to be lured into such a group. The perception people in cults are different from the rest of...

13.08.2025 8

The Age

Ahona Guha

Our obsession with female killers is tied to something stranger – a willingness to justify their crimes

The case of Erin Patterson tells us a lot about the grip certain types of crimes have on us, the beliefs we hold, and the fictions we like to tell...

08.07.2025 10

The Age

Ahona Guha

After suffering a breakdown at work, a nurse has had to confront her lifetime of damaging self-sacrifice

06.07.2025 10

The Guardian

Ahona Guha

I’m a forensic psychologist. Here’s how to tell if your child might be an abuse victim

There’s an instinctive sense that we would recognise people who abuse children. While his is a comforting lie, it is one which comes at the cost of...

02.07.2025 10

The Age

Ahona Guha

More than fame or wealth, Diddy used his age gap with Cassie to control her

In her testimony against Diddy, Cassie Ventura explained to the world why age gaps can still be so dangerous for young women in relationships.

18.05.2025 8

WA Today

Ahona Guha

More than fame or wealth, Diddy used his age gap with Cassie to control her

In her testimony against Diddy, Cassie Ventura explained to the world why age gaps can still be so dangerous for young women in relationships.

18.05.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Ahona Guha

More than fame or wealth, Diddy used his age gap with Cassie to control her

In her testimony against Diddy, Cassie Ventura explained to the world why age gaps can still be so dangerous for young women in relationships.

18.05.2025 10

The Age

Ahona Guha

More than fame or wealth, Diddy used his age gap with Cassie to control her

In her testimony against Diddy, Cassie Ventura explained to the world why age gaps can still be so dangerous for young women in relationships.

18.05.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Ahona Guha

Too many narcissists in the nest: Why Trump’s bromances were always bound to clash

Elon Musk’s public fallout with Trump’s trade advisor Pete Navarro came as no surprise to psychologists like me. It’s increasingly clear that we...

10.04.2025 10

WA Today

Ahona Guha

Too many narcissists in the nest: Why Trump’s bromances were always bound to clash

Elon Musk’s public fallout with Trump’s trade advisor Pete Navarro came as no surprise to psychologists like me. It’s increasingly clear that we...

10.04.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Ahona Guha

Too many narcissists in the nest: Why Trump’s bromances were always bound to clash

Elon Musk’s public fallout with Trump’s trade advisor Pete Navarro came as no surprise to psychologists like me. It’s increasingly clear that we...

10.04.2025 10

The Age

Ahona Guha

Too many narcissists in the nest: Why Trump’s bromances were always bound to clash

Elon Musk’s public fallout with Trump’s trade advisor Pete Navarro came as no surprise to psychologists like me. It’s increasingly clear that we...

10.04.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Ahona Guha

Like a toxic omnipresence, Trump is everywhere. Including my therapy room

As flagrant violations of power occur in what can only be described as an emerging dictator state, we’re seeing an increase in anxiety here in...

19.03.2025 10

WA Today

Ahona Guha

Like a toxic omnipresence, Trump is everywhere. Including my therapy room

As flagrant violations of power occur in what can only be described as an emerging dictator state, we’re seeing an increase in anxiety here in...

19.03.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Ahona Guha

Like a toxic omnipresence, Trump is everywhere. Including my therapy room

As flagrant violations of power occur in what can only be described as an emerging dictator state, we’re seeing an increase in anxiety here in...

19.03.2025 10

The Age

Ahona Guha

Like a toxic omnipresence, Trump is everywhere. Including my therapy room

As flagrant violations of power occur in what can only be described as an emerging dictator state, we’re seeing an increase in anxiety here in...

19.03.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Ahona Guha

Sandra was estranged from her mother after experiencing childhood trauma. The grief when she died was complicated

02.02.2025 20

The Guardian

Ahona Guha

Ready for resolutions? A psychologist recommends you prioritise this

It’s that time of the year when everyone starts planning, setting and reviewing their goals for 2025. Up there on the list with aspiring to save...

26.12.2024 10

WA Today

Ahona Guha

Ready for resolutions? A psychologist recommends you prioritise this

It’s that time of the year when everyone starts planning, setting and reviewing their goals for 2025. Up there on the list with aspiring to save...

26.12.2024 10

The Age

Ahona Guha

Ready for resolutions? A psychologist recommends you prioritise this

It’s that time of the year when everyone starts planning, setting and reviewing their goals for 2025. Up there on the list with aspiring to save...

26.12.2024 6

Brisbane Times

Ahona Guha

Ready for resolutions? A psychologist recommends you prioritise this

It’s that time of the year when everyone starts planning, setting and reviewing their goals for 2025. Up there on the list with aspiring to save...

26.12.2024 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Ahona Guha

Ambika survived years of her brother’s abuse. That her parents turned a blind eye remains a source of great pain

We’ve broken the cone of silence around most forms of abuse and shame. However, sibling abuse often remains unnamed and unaddressed. International...

08.12.2024 10

The Guardian

Ahona Guha