When Being Busy Becomes an Escape

Busyness as Emotional Avoidance: How full schedules can become an escape from feelings that need attention.

Maryam Moazzami brings therapy work as a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) across anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationships to a coping habit that often looks responsible from the outside. She draws a line between staying busy enough to stop overthinking and using busyness to avoid sitting with feelings. The contrast matters because a full schedule can support someone, or it can hide what keeps returning. Listeners leave able to spot when busyness is care, when it is avoidance, and why a little stillness may be the harder work.

About Maryam

Maryam, podcast guest

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Maryam Moazzami is a therapist and Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in Canada whose work focuses on mental health, sex and relationships, and couples therapy. She supports individual adults and couples through therapy, including work around romantic relationship dynamics, couple conflict, desire discrepancies, grief, depression, ADHD, anxiety, trauma, and women’s mental health topics such as fertility, menopause, prenatal, postnatal, and postpartum experiences.

Maryam brings a strong academic and clinical foundation to conversations about therapy and relationships. Her background includes a Master of Psychology in Clinical and Counselling Psychology, a Master of Public Health, and supervised clinical experience across multiple therapy and assessment settings. Her LinkedIn profile lists experience providing therapy for individual adults, adolescents, children, and couples, as well as comprehensive psychodiagnostic and psycho-educational assessments under psychologist supervision.

For podcast hosts, Maryam can offer thoughtful, evidence-conscious conversations about how people relate, communicate, cope, and seek support. She is especially interested in romantic relationships, couples’ conflict, desire differences, and the mental health concerns that often intersect with intimacy, life transitions, grief, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and trauma. She is also attentive to citing sources and presenting clinical ideas responsibly, making her a grounded guest for hosts who want accessible but careful conversations about therapy, relationships, and mental health.

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