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  • Webinar panellist

Mish Kumar-Jonson

CEO of The Iceberg Foundation, Accredited Mental Health Social Worker
Panellists have generously contributed to our CPD webinars. Please note that they are not employed by MHPN, and we are unable to contact them or provide referrals on your behalf. Please do not send us patient details.

Mish Kumar-Jonson is a South Indian, non-binary, queer, neurodivergent, and disabled Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and EMDR Consultant based on unceded Kulin Nation lands. As a therapist, researcher, and leader, Mish integrates anti-oppressive and healing-centred approaches to trauma work, especially with neuroqueer people of the global majority, to create spaces where folks can connect, heal, and embody their favourite selves. Through both their therapeutic and governance practices Mish seeks to centre cultural humility, identity-affirming care, and joy as tools for liberation, and identity reclamation. Mish predominantly works with folks navigating dissociation and dissociative identity responses – especially those with racial, displacement, neurodivergent, queer, cultural, family violence, and intergenerational trauma. Mish has presented on identity affirming and anti-colonial practices globally and continues to advocate for liberation focused practices across a range of settings. They are the current CEO of The Iceberg Foundation and Director at Niram EMDR alongside their work at TRNA and their research as a research fellow at the University of Melbourne where they are investigating the role of cultural dance within EMDR to increase cultural affirmation with EMDR praxis.

The Mental Health Professionals’ Network (MHPN) respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri and the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation, the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which our office is situated. We also acknowledge Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. Find out more.