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Ritu, a 40 year old single parent from Kolkata, India, who lives alone with her disabled teenaged son, hadnine sessions of GIM to help him gain relief from severe anxiety and panic attacks. At the time of starting therapy she was not working and had very limited support networks. Her father had died several years ago and Ritu had suffered most of her life with ligh levels of anxiety and severe panic attacks. She was taking a prescription of Prozac from her physician.

Ritu had a total of nine GIM sessions over a period of six months. Through the therapy process, Ritu was able to look at some of her past experiences that she had not had the opportunity to support network to process at the time. She explored ending of a frightening work relationship where she feared that she may be assaulted, she remembered the chaos and confusion of moving home and schools when she was a teenager. Ritu grieved the sadness of an old love relationship and realized that she must move on, holding onto the hope that this relationship was going to work was actually holding her back from making the most of her life now and finally Ritu also grieved the loss of her father and reaffirmed a spiritual connection with him as a part of her final session. Read the complete story

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