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Counseling and Psychotherapy for South Asian Americans: Identity, Psychology and Clinical Implications book is now available! First book of it's kind in the US and UK!

Interviewed and quoted for Good Housekeeping magazine for Adele's great article on providing mental health resources for the AAPI community. I also speak to the inclusion of AAPI resources.

Quoted and interviewed for WIRED for Estelle’s great article on when do you reply and when do you not on social media? Here we all share some great tips on navigating social media.

Interviewed by National Geographic with other experts on ways to create resiliency in children, and sharing tips for parents during these times.

I am now a Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider! More information to follow soon on services I will be providing to support your wellbeing!

Honored to serve on the American Psychological Association (APA) Minority Fellowship Program Training Committee! For more information, check out, Click here




 


 

 



 

 

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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:

  • Diversity and higher education
  • Student mental health needs (children, teens and college students)
  • Depression and anxiety
  • Supporting emerging leaders
  • Time management
  • Infertility
  • New mothers
  • 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 local trainings on relationships, multicultural counseling, parent workshops (i.e. supporting new moms, how to talk to your teens), Indian girls and growing up in America, immigration, building girls self esteem and more.  If you would like me to provide a workshop to your organization, please contact ulashmind@gmail.com.