ISRAA NASIR, MHC-LP
Through personal insights and behavioral psychology, Israa Nasir highlights how a results-driven culture can lead to toxic productivity—where productivity becomes a measure of personal value, overshadowing basic human needs and leading to negative habits like perfectionism and self-neglect—and what you can do to help your clients shift away from it.
When self-care becomes self-sabotage, it’s time to help clients break free from toxic productivity. Israa Nasir, MHP, LPC explores how consumer-driven self-care can become a harmful cycle, plus strategies to help clients reflect on their self-care practices and motivations.
Israa Nasir, MHC-LP, is a New York City-based psychotherapist, writer, and the founder of WellGuide – a digital community for mental health awareness. A Pakistani Canadian child of immigrants, she has a specific focus on mental health, identity formation, and healing for the AAPI first and second-generation immigrant community. Israa has been featured in NBC, Vox, Huffpost, Teen Vogue, and other major publications and has been invited to speak at corporations such as Google, Meta, and Yale University.