Dr. Pooja Lakshmin is a board-certified psychiatrist, author, keynote speaker, and contributor to The New York Times.
Her new, nationally best-selling book, Real Self-Care: Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble-Baths Not Included, has been featured by Good Morning America, NPR’s Code Switch, The New York Times, The Ezra Klein Show, The Guardian, and translated into 8 languages. Pooja serves as a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at George Washington University School of Medicine, and maintains an active private practice where she treats women struggling with burnout, perfectionism, and disillusionment, as well as clinical conditions like depression, anxiety and ADHD. She frequently speaks, advises and consults for organizations on mental health, well-being, and real self-care. Pooja also writes the email newsletter Therapy Takeaway, which is available for free on Substack.
