The Asian Mental Health Podcast
Episodes
Emotional Invalidation in Asian Families: Provisional Psychologist Larissa Qiu on BPD, Culture, and Boundaries
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎁 Free Resource: For further growth and learning, download "Working with Invalidation in Asian Families" → HEREWhat happens when love...
International Student Mental Health: Malaysian Counsellor Yi Tong Tew on Identity, Belonging, and Finding Support in Melbourne
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
⚠️ Content warning: This episode discusses suicide and sexual assault. Please listen with care and use the support services listed below if you n...
Breaking Intergenerational Cycles: Asian Australian Parenting with Clinical Psychologist Vi Tran
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎁 Free Resource: Download your Breaking cycles, keeping culture: A guide for the Asian community PDF for deeper learning → HEREIn this episo...
Can AI Replace Therapy? What Asian Australians Need to Know About Digital Mental Health
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎁 Free Resource: Download "AI vs Therapy: What's the difference" to deepen your learning → HEREIn this mid-season episode of t...
Living with Chronic Pain as an Asian Australian: One Session That Changed Everything
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎁 Free Resource Download your free Cultural considerations in chronic pain guide → HERE. In this episode, Asami swaps roles to become the gue...
"My Parents Didn't Birth Their Retirement Plan": Vietnamese Australian Psychologist Helen Tang on Anxiety and Family
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎁 Free Resource: Download our guide How to Talk About Mental Health with Your Asian Parents HERE.What do you do if you can't find the right ...
Understanding Internalised Racism: How Asian Australians Can Heal Identity Shame with Counsellor Jackie Ha
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎁Free resource: Download your guide Navigating Internalised Racism HERE.✨ How does internalised racism shape the way we see ourselves, and how...
Why therapeutic rapport matters more than you think: Finding the right psychologist for Asian Australians
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
💡Download the free therapeutic rapport guide that accompanies this episode HERE.What makes therapy work? Is it the technique, the therapist's ...
Bonus episode: Mindfulness through craft (Uncut)
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As promised, here is the unabridged version of the documentary that Oscar made during his travel through Japan. He dives deeper into the Eastern philo...
How art therapy works: 'A bridge between the inner and outer'
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Asami and Marcus invite their beloved teammate Stef Kam onto the show to discuss their work as an art therapist and an artist. Stef explains how creat...
Oscar in Japan: Mindfulness through Japanese craft
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a very special travel documentary episode, Oscar explores the intersection of work, honing a craft and mental health in Japanese craft. The team di...
What coming out to my Brown conservative parents taught me about advocacy
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dom Thattil, influencer and advocate for BIPOC and queer communities, drops into the studio for a chat with Asami about balancing safety with visibili...
Navigating gossip, bigotry and self-criticism
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Shapes and Sounds team share workplace survival stories, how would you deal with these situations? Asami investigates an insulting rumour, Oscar c...
How to deal with your toxic boss
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Asami sits down with clinical psychologist and relationships expert Sanduni Silva. They discuss the emotional baggage we carry into the workplace and ...
ADHD and autism: an Asian perspective
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A Shapes and Sounds community member shares her inspiring story of living and working with ADHD and autism.The transcript is available here.Help desti...
The non-linear path from education to employment
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marcus and Asami are joined by Rachel Lim, psychologist and clinical lead from Headspace Syndal. With a strong passion for youth mental health, Rachel...
The Silent Hustle: Work and Mental Health
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Asian Mental Health is back! To kick things off, Asami, Marcus and Oscar define the theme they’ve chosen for our third season and talk about the...
How I chose my creative career.
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For our season 2 finale, Oscar and Marcus interrogate our technical producer Yeo about his copyright beef with Kanye West (!) and find out how communi...
When your job impacts your mental health.
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marcus and Asami gain invaluable insight from Beverley Wang (ABC’s National Culture Correspondent and host of Stop Everything! and Life Matters) as ...
Running: a business vs a marathon.
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our fearless leader Asami finally takes the hot seat and tells all about the link between physical and mental wellness, building a good relationship w...
The things we can't control.
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Asami describes the alarming findings of the latest youth mental health research, Marcus explains how the pandemic has changed the brains of young peo...
What helps men to open up?
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jagesh Panchal, founder of Shakti Mental Health, speaks about comfortable spaces for conversations between men about their mental health, the diversit...
The importance of self-reflection.
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We nudge Oscar into the hot-seat and try to convince him that he’s creative. As our co-host and community engagement lead, he explains why bathing, ...
How to trust your future self.
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our co-host and resident psychology student Marcus shares ideas on combating stressful workload paralysis while leading an academically-driven lifesty...
The reality of stigma.
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To kick off our second season, the Shapes and Sounds team discuss the harmful misconceptions and serious consequences of poor mental health in Asian c...
Do I have intergenerational trauma?
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
👋Welcome back to the Asian Mental Health podcast! In our season 1 finale, we’re joined by Anushka Phal. Through her lived experience as a third-c...
Masculinity, media and mental health.
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
👋Welcome back to the Asian Mental Health podcast! In episode 7, we’re joined by Bimba Chavan. Using her expertise as a counsellor at Unhyphen Psy...
How to stop comparing yourself to others.
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
👋Welcome back to the Asian Mental Health podcast! Behind every win, lies a series of failures that we’ve all had to overcome. This episode talks ...
Balancing Asian values and mental health.
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"It seems like a lot of mental health messaging seems to be a rejection of Asian values..." 👋Welcome back to the Asian Mental Health pod...
It's okay, you are not your parents.
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
👋Welcome back to the Asian Mental Health podcast! For this episode, we’re joined by Nathan Lee who’s the co-founder of Stint, an online communi...
What actually happens in your first therapy session.
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
👋Hello and welcome back to the Asian Mental Health podcast! In this episode, we’re joined by Dr Ahona Guha who is a clinical and forensic psychol...
How to tell your Asian parents you love them.
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
👋Welcome back to the Asian Mental Health podcast! For this episode, we’re joined by Natcha Limpianunchai who's a registered psychologist and ...
What's Asian Mental Health?
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
👋Hello and welcome to the very first episode of the Asian Mental Health podcast! This is an introductory episode to help you get to know your hosts...
Trailer: The Asian Mental Health Podcast
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s easy to think that you’re all alone in your struggles, especially if you come from an Asian family where often, conversations about mental he...