Publications & research
Writing, research, and work I'd like to do with you.
Essays, professional articles and academic work on cross-cultural psychology — and an open door to research collaborations, guest lectures and interdisciplinary projects.
Research interests
What I'm working on and want to work on.
The work behind the work
Research that starts in the room.
Every question I write about arrived first as something a client said that the literature had no name for. Cultural grief, the language your feelings live in, what a framework quietly assumes about the person sitting in front of you.
Essays
Writing on Medium.
Public, ongoing, and the closest thing to hearing how I think. Much of it is narrative work done in the open — reauthoring a life across cultures, in essay form.
On cultural grief
The mourning that has no funeral — why leaving a country can feel like a bereavement, and why it isn't depression.
Read EssayThe language your feelings live in
What changes when you describe your pain in a second language, and what your therapist may be missing.
Read EssayLeaving the rails
On a life that refused the track it was assigned, and what that has to do with clinical work.
ReadThe library
Academic and professional work.
This page is built to grow — academic papers, book chapters, professional articles, opinion pieces, practitioner guides and public mental health resources all live here as they appear.
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Master's
Research on adolescent mental health
Master's thesis, clinical psychology — Japan. The starting point for everything that followed.
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Ongoing
Essays on cross-cultural psychology
A continuing series of public essays on cultural grief, identity and belonging.
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In progress
Practitioner guides on cultural grief
Clinical frameworks for identifying and treating cultural grief, developed from workshop material.
Collaboration
Open to.
Sumire welcomes opportunities for international research collaborations, guest lectures, conference presentations, and interdisciplinary projects.
International research collaborations
Cross-institutional projects in cross-cultural and global mental health.
Guest lectures
For psychology, social work, public health and area studies programmes.
Conference presentations
Papers, panels and clinical workshops at academic and practitioner conferences.
Interdisciplinary projects
Work that crosses psychology with migration studies, policy, gender studies or design.
Next step
Have a project that needs a cross-cultural clinician?
Send the outline — even an early one. I'm particularly interested in work on cultural grief and refugee mental health.