Connect and Grow.
Continuing professional development and professional networking for Asian mental health practitioners.
All sessions are facilitated on Zoom, join us from any convenient location.
2024 sessions:
Session 1.
Thursday February 22nd 2024.
Theme: Best practice strategies to support Asian international students in therapeutic practice.
Session 2.
Thursday May 9th 2024.
Theme: Addressing the key mental health needs of different Asian sub-communities.
Session 3.
Thursday August 8th 2024.
Theme: Addressing the mental health needs of 1st, 1.5 and 2nd+ generation Asian Australians.
Session 4.
Thursday November 14th 2024.
Theme: Connecting with emerging mental health research and perspectives from Asia.
These sessions help me feel safe to share my clinical and cultural intersections. It is a valuable space and essential to my growth as a practitioner and Asian Australian.
- Will Vuong,
Wellspring Counselling
Who is this for?
Will I gain CPD points?
What is the investment?
Your facilitators.
Join our lead facilitator and psychologist, Smruthy Nair, alongside our multi-disciplinary team who together have over 30+ years' expertise across trauma-informed and culturally-responsive mental health practice.
Learn more about our team.
What can you expect from Connect and Grow?
We're usually joined by around 15 - 20 practitioners from all over the country, on Zoom.
An example of the session:
- 7.30pm: Welcome and introduction by Shapes and Sounds.
- 7.40pm: Speed introductions and warm up.
- 7.50pm: Content delivered by our facilitator, Smruthy, in relation to the session's theme.
- 8.15pm: Small breakout rooms of 2 - 3 practitioners to discuss the reflective prompts outlined by Smruthy.
- 8.50pm: Whole group discussion and wrap up.
- 9.00pm: Close.
The timing and content may vary slightly depending on each session's theme and the group's emerging needs.
Just because you're a therapist of colour, it doesn't mean that your practice is automatically "culturally-responsive".
Try our quick checklist:
Meet some of our amazing practitioners
Daniela Ho Tan, clinical psychologist
Join Dani for her one-day workshop, "East meets West: Integrating culture into clinical practice for Asian heritage populations."
This workshop is for mental health practitioners of all identities, and aimed at exploring the gaps between Western therapy principles and Eastern/Asian cultural values.
Melbourne: Thursday 27th June 2024 in Melbourne at Angliss Conference Centre.
Learn more from Dani
Kara Choi, clinical psychologist
The Circle of Security Parenting program is a group program that is based in more than 50 years of attachment research.
Join Kara from Alongside Psychology, for an 8-week program, designed to help you grow in parenting confidence and set up firm foundations for your growing family.
Sydney: Starting Friday May 3rd at 10.30am - 12pm
Learn more from Kara