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The Asian Mental Health Podcast is brought to you by Asami and Marcus from Shapes and Sounds, the leading voice for Asian mental health and wellbeing in Australia.
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International Student Mental Health: What 20 Student Leaders Reveal About Loneliness, Resilience & Support (opens the original)
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🌟 Season 5 of the Asian Mental Health Podcast is a wrap. This finale episode looks back on everything: the Student Changemakers leadership program, the students who made it what it was, the practitioners who showed up for them, and the very big feelings the Shapes and Sounds team has about what the mental health sector still needs to do. Season finales are usually about celebration, and there's plenty of that here. Asami, Marcus, and senior producer Yeo Choong reflect on six weeks of running a f
"I'm Crying, But I'm Crying in Melbourne": International Student Loneliness & Life Far From India (opens the original)
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What does it really take to move across the world at 18, navigate a new city alone, and build a life from scratch? In this episode, Asami is joined by Divnoor Kaur, a Punjabi-Indian psychology graduate and early childhood diploma student who has been quietly determined to be part of Shapes and Sounds since 2023. It took three years, but we're so grateful that she made it here! The conversation also features voice memos from Tina Liu, a bilingual psychologist at one of our Practice Partners, Mind
"You Don't Have to Prove Yourself": Filipino-Chinese Psychology Student on Cultural Pride, Systemic Stigma, and Finding Yourself Far From Home (opens the original)
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⚠️ Content warning: This episode includes mentions of eating disorders and depression. Please approach this carefully. If this doesn't feel right for you today, skip ahead or return when you're ready. What happens when your culture is something you only truly discover after leaving it behind? In this episode, Asami sits down with Cait, a Filipino-Chinese undergraduate psychology student, youth mental health advocate, and owner of 11 dogs (!) each with their own personality and their own wanted-p
"I Cried for Two Hours Before Coming Out": Malaysian Psychologist Dr. On on Identity, Shame, and Finding Safety in Melbourne (opens the original)
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What does it take to move to a new country at 19, navigate culture shock, come out as gay while studying psychology, work through perfectionism and shame, and eventually build your own clinical practice? In this episode, Dr. Zhi Xiang On takes us on that journey with warmth, humour, and remarkable honesty.On moved from Klang, Malaysia to Melbourne to study psychology at 19. What started as curiosity about a big city quickly became a complex navigation of identity, belonging, and self-discovery.
Finding Help as an International Student: The Gap Between Services and Real Support in Australia (opens the original)
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Why is it so hard to find help as an international student in Australia? When services exist but feel impossible to access, when information is scattered across a dozen websites, and when you're not even sure what "good therapy" looks like... where do you even start? In this episode of the Asian Mental Health Podcast, Marcus sits down with Vinca Metta Julicia and Sania Jatin Prabhu, two international students and Student Changemakers participants, for an honest conversation about what it's reall
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