Many of us grew up learning to hold everything — translating, soothing, organising, protecting — long before we had space to be children. In Asian and migrant families, this responsibility is woven with love, culture, and survival. Healing isn’t about rejecting our roots, but finding room for ourselves within them.

Confucian values still quietly shape how many Asian Australians understand emotion, duty, and connection. Harmony, restraint, and relational identity guide how distress is expressed and why separation can feel like a moral rupture rather than a simple choice. When clinicians recognise this cultural logic, they create space for care that honours the worlds their clients move between.

For a brief introduction to Schema Therapy, please refer to this link . Introduction Next to being a self-actualised individual or a long-term committed relationship, parenting is possibly the hardest task a human being can do. Many people I meet enter therapy at a few points in their lives - they feel exhausted, lost as individuals; they yearn to be a parent and are having difficulties, they are about to become parents, or they feel like they are lousy parents. The list goes