August Newsletter: Seeking your honest feedback

Hello!

Season 1 of the Asian Mental Health podcast is now all done and I've been thinking about how the podcast changed some of my own behaviours too...⁠⁠

For me, even though I talk about mental health all day, every day, I walked away from our recording week and feeling motivated to get back to therapy again. It was this strange re-remembering of the fact that there are so many incredible clinicians out there, doing really amazing work and that there are so many different resources out there available to support us too.⁠

I know all this cognitively, but diving into big conversations with our therapist guest-speakers reminded me of this on a visceral level... I'm not quite sure how to describe it but it's nice to observe the benefit that the podcast's had on my own life.

Anyway, now comes the task of trying to understand what benefit (if any) the podcast has for you. If you have any reflections or suggestions to share, I'd love if you could share them with us (anonymously if you'd prefer), via this 2 minute survey!

We look forward to hearing from you, and making improvements for you in season 2 (coming in October!)

 ❤️Asami

🌱Upcoming workshops:

For therapists: Develop your culturally-responsive practice at our next professional development session, Connect and Grow on August 8th at 7.30pm AEDT.

Learning theme: Addressing the mental health needs of 1st, 1.5 and 2nd+ generation Asian Australians.

For international students from Asia: Express yourself, connect with others and learn skills to manage your mood via our Creative Arts Therapy workshops!

Starting Thursday August 15th 6.30pm. In partnership with LaTrobe University.

🦉 Interesting things relating to mental health and Asian Australian identity:

📚 Academia: Continuing on last month's theme of forensic psychology, this paper explored whether rater bias occurred within forensic psychological assessments, and found that there was no cultural bias in the risk assessment process, despite it being known that there is a over-representation of CALD populations within prison systems. 

🤳🏻 Music: Liminal - an Asian Australian literary collective, is hosting their first festival across August 2-4, where they will share stories and reflections on the cultural landscape of Australia. The Indian Film festival is also on from August 15-25, so make sure to check that out!

🔎 Searching for a therapist?

Connect with our new practitioners below, or share this page with someone who may need this

🎤 Therapist spotlight.

Get to know provisional psychologist, Krishneeta Kashyap via our interview:

"Stay present. You got this, it will pass. Breathe."

Get to know clinical psychologist, Dr Sherwynna Lee via our interview:

"It's okay to go slow. So slow down, take a breath and then take a few more."

✨Thank you for reading up to this point!

We rely heavily on your generous support to provide ongoing and free mental health resources to Asian communities in Australia.

Support Shapes and Sounds HERE.

🐌 And last but not least:

Recently in social media land,

We've been sharing some snippets from our first ever podcast. Explore our instagram to check out some more content from our podcasts! We hope you enjoy :)