Quoted in, written for
The places outside this site where a psychologist from The Thought Co. put her name to a sentence, or a microphone.
The Thought Co. is a psychologist-led practice in Lower Parel, Mumbai, working since 2014. Its founder, psychologist Priyanka Kartari, co-authored State of Mind: The Startup Ecosystem, a 2026 survey of 823 people in India's startup ecosystem. She has written for The Swaddle and has been quoted in HT Brunch, The Better India, The Economic Times, The Times of India, News18 and Mid-day on suicide prevention, money and marriage, protest-era anxiety, caregiver burnout, fathers, breakups, letting go and life after Covid.
Co-authored
A study, not a quote. Priyanka is one of three authors, with Dr Sukhmani Pal and Dr Dilip Panniker. Sheetal Bahl of Merak Ventures started it. It reached the press on 8 October 2026, two days before World Mental Health Day.
Source: State of Mind: The Startup Ecosystem, October 2026. Anonymous and self-selected, so it shows associations, not causes, and no diagnoses. Wellbeing was measured with an adapted WHO-5 whose cut-off was not independently validated for that adaptation.
Covered by- YourStory, 8 Oct 2026Nearly half of India's startup ecosystem report low wellbeing; employees fare the worst: Study
- Karostartup, 8 Oct 202647.5% of startup ecosystem score low on wellbeing, employees fare worst: State of Mind report
- CXOToday, 8 Oct 2026The High Cost of Hypergrowth: Nearly Half of Startup Workforce Struggles with Mental Health and Burnout
- BW Disrupt, 8 Oct 202647.5% of startup ecosystem workers score low on wellbeing
- BW People, 8 Oct 202654.3% of startup employees report low wellbeing, study finds
If it isn't on this page, we didn't say it. Short list, on purpose.
Written for
Full pieces, under Priyanka Kartari's own byline. Client stories inside them are shared with permission.
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The Swaddle30 December 2019Why Do People Lie About Money in Marriages? A Couples Therapist Weighs In
Three couples from her therapy room, and the line she draws between financial independence and financial infidelity. One partner can earn, save and invest alone. Neither partner gets to hide it.
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The Swaddle19 January 2020A Therapist's Notes on the Mental Health Fallout of the CAA-NRC Protests
What changed in a Mumbai practice in the winter of 2019, when clients started scheduling sessions around protest timings. She has a name for what she saw in the room: anxious resilience.
Quoted in
Reporters asked. She answered. Her lines are inside these pieces, alongside other clinicians.
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HT Brunch, Hindustan TimesMay 2025Sorry Boomers, young people's lives are harder today. Here's why
On why the generation being told it has it easy is carrying a different kind of weight. Behind HT's paywall.
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The Better India10 September 2024'Don't Rush to Give Advice': How to Help Someone Who Is Having Suicidal Thoughts
Interviewed for World Suicide Prevention Day. Her first line to the reporter: listening is the most crucial. Then five things to do when someone comes to you, and one to stop doing: making it about yourself.
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The Economic Times13 June 2022Daddy issues isn't just a fixation: skewed attachment to fathers puts kids at risk of borderline personality disorder, Stockholm syndrome
Father's Day piece. Her part: in an Indian home the house tends to agree or disagree based on the father's preference, so a child's view of the world, money and other people is set there first. And what shifts when children watch their fathers do the chores.
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The Economic Times5 January 2022The burden of cancer care: how to safeguard yourself from burnout and loneliness when you are supporting a chronically ill patient
Caregiver burnout, and the loneliness of looking after someone who is not getting better.
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The Times of India19 December 2021Stalking your ex on Facebook will make it harder to move on
Why checking an ex's profile keeps a breakup open long after the relationship has closed.
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News1827 September 2021Hunted by Covid-19: Day 550 in the woods, sans sleep, food, sex or a companion
Pandemic fatigue, 550 days in. Sleep, appetite, sex and company, and what happens to a person when all four go quiet.
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News186 May 2021Survivor guilt, ICU trauma, headaches: how to care for physical and mental health post Covid-19 recovery
Recovering from Covid, and the guilt that can come with surviving it when someone else did not.
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Mid-day2 September 2020Psychologist shares 5 ways on how to let go
Written the week Ganpati went home. Why letting go is hard: the emotions we attach to a thing, and the way being stuck can look like loyalty. Her image for it is a spider's web, and the way out is to ask whether holding on is doing anything for you.
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Long conversations, recorded. Nothing scripted.
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Mumma Approved podcast8 July 2026Why Is HE Applauded For MY Job? Priyanka Varma Explains
Forty minutes with host Sneha on the part of motherhood nobody warns you about: the postpartum fog, the anger, the mental load that never switches off, and why more help has not meant less burnout.
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Switch India3 September 2020How to deal with heartbreaks and cope with jealousy and guilt
A fifty-minute conversation on what a breakup does to a person, and what jealousy and guilt are doing underneath it.
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Switch IndiaJuly 2019What is mental health?
The basic question, answered without the poster language.
Also on the record
Pieces about The Thought Co. and profiles of Priyanka. For the first two, nobody was interviewed. Someone noticed.
- GQ India, 12 May 2021: The Thought Co.'s Instagram, sixth on a list of eight resources, for posts grounded in research. Also named: the Holding Space sessions on Zoom, the Covid resource kit and the Thought Box.
- Tweak India, 19 March 2021: the Thought Box, in a list of ten personalised gifts. Their line for it: a box that cares.
- Mental Health Innovation Network: a member profile of Priyanka Kartari.
- Mariwala Health Initiative, Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice: two recorded conversations between QACP trainer Pooja Nair and Priyanka Kartari, on self-doubt and on failure, listed among QACP's outreach work.
Writing about mental health in India?
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