My goal is to continue to share my understanding and experience with others, assist providers and individuals on ways to work effectively with children, adolescents, adults, and families. I provide trainings, talks and presentations on a local, national and international level as well as training and consultation services at my agency, school and in the community. My areas of interest vary, and include children and adolescent mental health, school based mental health, women's health, cultural identity, immigration, Asian American and South Asian mental health.
Topics that I have presented on:
- Depression and anxiety
- Burnout
- Diversity and higher education
- Student mental health needs (children, teens and college students)
- Supporting emerging leaders
- Time management
- Infertility
- New mothers needs
- Work life balance
- Asian American mental health
- The needs of the South Asian community
- Supporting immigrant clients
- Cultural competency
- School-based mental health services
Select Past Speaking Engagements and Presentations:
- American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), Leadership Symposium. Keynote. Being Intersectional Leaders and the Four Diamond Model of Inclusive Leadership Groups.
- Columbia University, Winter Roundtable at Teachers College on Mentoring Women of Color Emerging Leaders.
- Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA), Division on South Asian Americans Conference. New York. Supporting South Asian and Asian American Emerging Leaders for Leadership Positions in the Field of Mental Health and Psychology.
- South Asian Community Needs. Invited Panelist, South Asian Mental Health Conference.
- Working with South Asian Immigrant Girls in Group School-Settings, Div 45 Conference, Stanford University.
- Your Teen: Social and Emotional Development. School of The Arts (SOTA), Parent Workshop. San Francisco.
- Managing Your Stress, private workshop, San Francisco.
- Help Me Deal With My Teen! California.
- Trying to Conceive: Supporting Women, San Francisco.
- WomenNow TV on Infertility.
- Starting your Own Private Practice at CSA's annual symposium, San Francisco State University.
- Supporting Immigrant and Refugee Students (panel presentation), ACA Conference, San Francisco.
- Northern California Psychiatric Society (NCPS), USA. South Asian Immigrant Health.
- 3rd European CAMHS in Education Conference, Tavistock and Portman, The University of Cambridge, England, School-Based Mental Health.
- ENSEC, University of Manchester, Supporting Immigrant Students in The United States Through School-Based Mental Health Services, England, UK.
- 6th World Conference on the Promotion and Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Health Disorders. Working with Immigrant Students, Washington DC.
- Lessons Learned in Urban Schools: Conducting Groups with Latino and Asian Youth. ACA, Pittsburgh, (panel presentation).
- Family Separation Due to Deportation, CCA, Santa Clara, 2009 (panel presentation).
- Caught Between Multiple Worlds: Counseling South Asian and Muslim Teens. ACA, Hawaii (panel presentation).
I am working on numerous trainings and workshops. Please contact ulashmind@gmail.com if you would like to request a workshop or work with me to create a workshop.