Dr Imaan Joshi

Dr Imaan Joshi Procedural specialist GP; Full Face Aesthetics + skin disorders + skin cancer surgery. Sydney Subtle and Sensible Rejuvenation to enhance your natural beauty.

2025 in Review 2025 was a year of grinding, gaffs and (always) gratitude.Failures brought opportunities to reflect on ga...
02/01/2026

2025 in Review

2025 was a year of grinding, gaffs and (always) gratitude.

Failures brought opportunities to reflect on gaps in my systems but also that I was attracting some people whom i am not right for, which is on me.

Social media distrust in medicine, misinformation & disinformation led to frustrating discussions limited by time & cost to patients. In the end I had to encourage them to keep looking elsewhere.

I was accused of being unethical because i refused to issue prescriptions/investigations that I was unwilling to take responsibility for due to breakdown in the relationship. On the few occasions this happened, i met anger, was called names and once, felt fear for my safety.

In every role I hold — mum, daughter, doctor, colleague, boss, friend, — my intention is unchanged: to provide clarity with kindness, especially if I am saying no & explaining why.

Accusations of unethical & illegal conduct towards me or my staff has been deeply disappointing & bordered on defamatory. They left me distressed.

Upgrades in 2025:
•Committing to a PT & paying for 6 months at a time so I use it or lose it without impacting the PT when i lose motivation or experience setbavks. (strength training is the thing most of us were never taught)
• Magnesium glycinate for sleep & muscle recovery at night
• MHT optimisation to feel normal again
• walking minimum 8000 steps most days

Highlights of 2025:
• speaking at 2 medical conferences
• being asked to speak at a medicolegal conference

Shock unexpected diagnosis of 2025:
A patient came in for a skin cancer check; she had what was immediately apparent to me, as a non skin cancer cancer. It was thursday afternoon & I had to expedite biopsy results without letting on my concern till confirmed by pathologist the next morning . There followed many phone calls between patients to the shocked patient, her GP & referrl to an appropriate surgeon on friday afternoon .

Whole person care always pays off.

Gratitude moments of 2025:
• Growth amidst challenges with my kids; my teens are now reminding me during heated arguments “Mum, it’s not you vs me remember? It’s us vs the problem.” 🧡
• Listening to feedback from my young adult children when i am wrong
• The ongoing loyalty of my regular patients who show up when they say they will & value the time they reserve with me.
• Being able to serve low SES communities as a specialist GP
• Being presented with ongoing opportunities to teach and to educate other HCPs

In 2026 I’m focusing on what I lost in 2025:
- presence with my kids especially due to loss of effective boundaries around non urgent clinic needs
- nervous system reset that saw me become easily flustered with patients with unrealistic expectations of me including baseless accusations .
- resuming weekly therapy for myself
- upgrading my health & fitness goals

If you were a follower and/or a patient in 2025 & we chatted here, thank you for placing your trust in me as your doctor, & source of knowledge in this new AI & wellness world of information that is often incorrect .

It is my hope that there are many of you who still look to your doctor for guidance, expert knowledge & shared decision making in your best interest . I am here to serve you.

Thank you being part of the journey with me & here’s to more of that in 2026.

2025 was a humbling year. Many here are highlighting their wins while my focus has been largely (disproportionately, unh...
31/12/2025

2025 was a humbling year.

Many here are highlighting their wins while my focus has been largely (disproportionately, unhelpfully) on the losses.

I sat on my pity pot for longer than was necessary in 2025 because I let the opinions of people outweigh what I know to he true. And in 2026 that’s a priority for me to work on- nervous system reset.

My kids didn’t see much of me especially June to December.

I was never off work communication for non urgent issues. And my kids suffered for it as did my health , sleep & fitness.

Over the last ~12 days I’ve managed to switch off work completely. It’s been bliss. And I need to do more of this in 2026.

Ageing proactively is a commitment you make first to yourself and then to me if I’m your doctor. That means we don’t behave in ways during temporary setbacks that sabotage permanent gains.

In 2026 I’ll make my standards and expectations clearer and raise the bar to entry. It’s ok if you’re not ready- wait till you are willing to do what it takes, assuming it’s not too late by then.

Time waits for none of us. And I’m determined to learn from my mistakes in 2025 to forge a better path in 2026.

This is your reminder that later this week all of Team Skin Essentials and I are headed out on holiday break.Each year w...
15/12/2025

This is your reminder that later this week all of Team Skin Essentials and I are headed out on holiday break.

Each year we fully shut down the business to give everyone on the team a chance to truly unplug for the holidays.

Starting Friday 19th December from 4pm until Friday 16 January we’ll have limited inbox support until our return.

While we’re away on break you won’t be able to contact us until we’re back. I’ll be turning DMs and messages here off also so I can also unplug while away.

If you need support while we are out of office please email us at contact@skinessentials.com.au and we’ll respond once we’re back in office from 16th January 2026.

Taking actual time off has been one of my biggest and most important life upgrades in the last few years.

As a solo procedural practitioner, there’s a lag period for the work I do which meant that I never get to be “off” in the event of any true emergencies including on weekends & leave. This is unsafe for you and for me. It also makes me grumpy.

So as of Dec 2024 I made changes to allow me to take time off guilt free, knowing no one was going to run into strife- ie an actual or perceived emergency- while I’m away.

For all my HCP colleagues who work solo, I hope you’re able to get a break too. Well rested HCPs are better equipped to support our patients & ourselves. It’s a non negotiable.

Thank you to everyone who’s supported me & my business in 2025. I hope we’ll continue to build on our work and our relationship in 2026.

Happy holidays!

Love this piece by for . We can be feminists distressed by the often predatory nature of the beauty industry AND also w...
10/12/2025

Love this piece by for .

We can be feminists distressed by the often predatory nature of the beauty industry AND also want to seek help to look our best beyond an age when the ageing process makes it harder.

Looking different, angry, unapproachable & mean are among the commonest reasons my patients seek me out. The vast majority of them are women who’ve done nothing until then (& who were always in the ageing gracefully camp… until they were confronted with reality).

Equally the vast majority of my patients don’t hate lines - they want movement, they want to see some wrinkles because they know an older face looks odd without some .

Many of you are also in professions where the ability to share expressions is crucial. You don’t want to look aloof, unapproachable, mean.

That’s what my work does, and who it’s for. Not young, beautiful faces that need nothing (yet) but faces that are starting to disconnect from the emotion inside.

Beyond an age, it evolves into my .

Either way, you get to choose what’s right for you, when and how. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Any desired goal needs to come with : - a structure - a reliable plan - formulated by a trustworthy expert - who’s prove...
10/12/2025

Any desired goal needs to come with :
- a structure
- a reliable plan
- formulated by a trustworthy expert
- who’s proven they know what they’re doing

And then you need to assess your willingness to show up, follow through & do what you said you would. Especially when there are unexpected setbacks, bumps, and things aren’t happening fast enough.

The time will pass anyway.

You’re here because what you’ve done so far - sometimes for YEARS- hasn’t worked. So why would doing more of the same work now?

Sometimes it’s your mindset that needs to change first.

10/12/2025

The best part of being a patient, for me, is that once I trust my doctor, I can switch off the anxiety that wants to control the uncontrollable.

It takes practice to know when to let go ..but trying to control what you don’t have expertise in can ultimately harm you in a different way.

10/12/2025

The problem with an unregulated specialty is that far too often people get told yes to treatments they really ought to be told no to.

So they waste thousands, only to be disappointed- because they were never a candidate.

There are aspects of the face that no amount of non surgical will improve enough to justify the fee.

So I say no as soon as I can to these patients & refer them to the right people- surgeons.

If they want, after surgery we can do all the rest.

Sequence matters. As does saying no.

07/12/2025

Love my younger millennial patients.

As someone who’ll be a doctor for 25 years in 2026.
As someone who’ll spent a decade in (2002-2011)
As someone who’s since added many more skills … & carries the baggage of Gen X… I love my millennial patients.

07/12/2025

Final thoughts on dissolving & what I see as responsible care over medical procedures.

07/12/2025

Do it right, first time every time.

I’ll die on this hill. (I have many hills…)

07/12/2025

Dissolving in 2025.

I’ve historically always said no to taking on someone else’s work/mistakes.

In large part it can be ego to think I can make you happy if the last 3-4 clinicians couldn’t.

It’s an orange flag.

So for me, at the consultation we talk about possible body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), what next steps might be, how they may wish to approach this & why.

I’m always upfront that I’d prefer they go back to the original clinician (which is what I expect from you if you’re my patient) & that you may look worse…

Start as you mean to go on. It’s your face.

07/12/2025

December is the month I use to plan for the year ahead:
- what I did well
- what worked
- what sucked
- what I did badly
- what impact that had on me…

Don’t quit during a moment of fear, setback or uncertainty; if you still want to quit when things are going well, then it may well be the right decision.

Don’t make permanent decisions during temporary feelings.

Channeling my “mother vibe” for all of you who might benefit 😉

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