Services
Working With Dr. Asatsa
Graduate early career scholars internship Programme and a culturally grounded Mental Health Consultancy – backed by colloquia, training workshops and lab mentorship.
Service 01
Graduate Internship Programme
A structured internship hosted within CIR-Lab for graduate students and early-career scholars in Psychology, Public Health, Anthropology and Cultural Evolution and adjacent disciplines. Interns are embedded in ongoing studies and trained across the full research cycle.
What interns gain
- Hands-on field experience in cross-cultural and community-based research.
- Training in qualitative coding, quantitative analysis and mixed methods.
- Manuscript writing and co-authorship opportunities on lab publications.
- Grant-development mentorship and exposure to international partners.
- Clinical observation in bereavement and youth mental-health work.
Service 02
Mental Health Consultancy
Culturally grounded clinical and organisational consultancy delivered by Dr. Asatsa and his network of trained associates. Anchored in indigenous African frameworks and informed by contemporary evidence-based practice.
Areas of consultancy
- Bereavement counselling, grief support and palliative-care psychology.
- Workplace well-being audits, burnout and work-addiction interventions.
- School Counseling Programmes
- Substance-use recovery programmes for youth and young adults.
- Community Psychology Programmes
Workshops & Colloquia
Training Activities
Community-led Mental Health Initiatives
Empowering communities to design and deliver culturally grounded mental health programs from grassroots awareness campaigns to peer-support networks.
Thanatology Workshop
Intensive training for clinicians and chaplains on grief, bereavement and culturally responsive palliative care.
Indigenous Methods Colloquium
Quarterly methodological colloquium on community-based, ethnographic and mixed-methods research for African graduate students.