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Connect and Grow.

Continuing professional development and discussions focusing on culturally responsive mental health for Asian communities.

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 completed

Session 2.

Thursday May 9th 2024.

Theme: Addressing the key mental health needs of different Asian sub-communities.

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Session 3.

Thursday August 8th 2024.

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

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Session 4.

Thursday November 14th 2024.

Theme: Connecting with emerging mental health research and perspectives from Asia.

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Connect with other therapists and grow your practice.

We're passionate about improving mental health in Asian communities and we want to help you meet their mental health needs in therapy.

Join our Connect and Grow sessions and learn best-practice strategies and frameworks to support the Asian community via culturally-responsive perspectives. 

💡Here, you'll feel validated in your intersectional experiences, find practical strategies to help you in your work, and be continually supported by our welcoming practitioner community.

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

For new members:

$75/Session

  • Access to the latest evidence-based literature in Asian mental health
  • Facilitated discussion
  • Expert speakers
  • CPD hours
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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.

Join the Asian Australian mental health practitioner list.

Sign up for the list before our next Connect and Grow date to gain free access to the session.

Sign me up today!

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

Just because you're a therapist of colour, it doesn't mean that your practice is automatically  "culturally-responsive".

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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