Anushka is a passionate psychologist driving advocacy and change for minority communities across Australia with her primary focus on Cultural Psychology and Educational & Developmental Psychology.

As the founder of Umeed Psychology – a social enterprise enabling positive mental health conversations and outcomes through a psychology private practice, Anushka aims to support the betterment of Asian Australian and Pacific Islander mental health. Umeed Psychology approaches mental health from a holistic lens and aims to provide prevention, intervention and postvention services. This includes but is not limited to culturally sensitive professional development resources and workshops for mental health practitioners, individual and group counselling, consulting services for other organisations and events, support groups and research.

Anushka is a published researcher (Dealing with Student Trauma: Exploring School Leadership Experiences and Impact) and is looking to advance research and understanding of multicultural mental health to complement her Masters research project which focused on the impact of biculturalism and intergenerational family conflict on the mental health of Asian Australians.