January Newsletter: Happy New Year!
Dec 25, 2023
Hello there!
Happy New Year, and welcome to 2024 with Shapes and Sounds.
We're thrilled to start this year by sharing that we've recently partnered with Melbourne clinical psychology practice, The Inner Collective, to help you further connect with culturally-responsive mental health practitioners!
Founded by Dr Phoebe Lau, The Inner Collective are a boutique clinical psychology practice located in Melbourne.
Their dedicated team of Asian Australian psychologists are passionate about destigmatising mental health, working with culturally diverse groups, and intersectionality.
We'll introduce you to each Inner Collective psychologist over the next few months, but for now, please click the image below to visit The Inner Collective's website!
❤️Asami
🌱Upcoming workshops:
For therapists: Develop your culturally-responsive practice at our next professional development session, Connect and Grow on February 22nd at 7.00pm AEDT.
🦉 Interesting things relating to mental health and Asian Australian identity:
📚 Academia: We all know how burnout can negatively affect our mental health, but ever wondered about how parental burnout affects youth mental health? This study demonstrates the predictive capacities of parental burnout on youth's onset of depression and anxiety.
And some recommendations from our Community Leads:
🍱 Food: Ginger Boy is hosting a Dining in the Dark experience, where patrons will try a 3 course meal while blindfolded!
📚 Books: Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant is a memoir by Curtis Chan about growing up as a gay Chinese-American kid in America
🔎 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 clinical psychologist, Joyce Ong via our interview:
"You are not alone, there are people who have gone before you and have done it. You can do it too, just take one step at a time. You got this."
"Instead of rejecting others, accept yourself.
✨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 shared our process of developing our new 4-week intensive program Know Yourself. Find out more about the program here!
📱Click to connect back in with our Instagram!
💡Free resource: The essential guide to Asian Australian mental health.
We created our "Essential Guide for Asian Australian Mental Health" by surveying over 350 Asian Australians during Covid-19 lockdowns.
Download our guide and learn about the three most pertinent areas of concern for the Asian community, with tips and strategies to support you through.