What's included
- 8 lessons with clear explanations, clinical examples and diagrams
- 4 TherapyAid worksheets and forms (fillable PDFs) to use with your own clients
- Final quiz with unlimited retakes (pass mark 80%)
- Certificate of completion for 3.5 hours, with a verification ID
- Lifetime access, self-paced on any device
See all 4 worksheets included
- Client handout: Stress and the Body
- Client handout: Healthy Boundaries
- Client handout: Healthy vs Unhealthy Relationships
- Safety Plan
Single-clinician licence: use, print and share them with your own clients.
About Course
South Asian communities are among the largest and fastest-growing in Canada, yet many families delay or avoid counselling. This course gives clinicians practical tools to engage South Asian clients respectfully and effectively: understanding family systems and collective values, recognising how distress is expressed and explained, reducing stigma, working with intergenerational and couple conflict, and adapting evidence-based therapy without stereotyping. Includes diagrams, case vignettes, a cultural formulation worksheet and a final quiz.
What you will learn
- Describe the diversity of South Asian communities in Canada and the risk of stereotyping.
- Apply a cultural humility stance and a structured cultural formulation with South Asian clients.
- Recognise culturally shaped expressions of distress, including somatic presentations and stigma.
- Work with family hierarchy, collective decision-making and intergenerational conflict.
- Adapt CBT and family interventions while respecting faith, language and values.
- Identify safety concerns, including family violence, and respond within professional and legal duties.
Certificate
Complete every lesson and pass the final quiz (80% or higher, unlimited retakes) to download your certificate of completion for 3 hours.
Continuing competence: check how this course applies to your regulatory college’s requirements. Course content is educational and is not clinical supervision or consultation about specific clients.
Your instructor
Mukesh Mishra, MSW, is a Registered Clinical Social Worker in Alberta and British Columbia, a Registered Social Worker in Ontario and an ACSW-approved clinical supervisor. He is the founder of Disha Counselling & Wellness Centre in Edmonton. He provides counselling in English, Hindi, Nepali, Punjabi and Urdu, and his practice serves many South Asian individuals, couples and families. He is a Diplomate of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies (A-CBT) and has Gottman Method training (Levels 1 and 2).
Course Content
Module 1: Foundations of Culturally Responsive Practice
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Who we mean by “South Asian”: diversity, not a monolith
18:00 -
Cultural formulation: asking the right questions
23:00