Sohail Kashkari is a South Asian-European health psychologist specializing in providing culturally sensitive care to diverse populations with chronic disease.
He has experience supporting the wellbeing of people with chronic pain, cancer, concussion, diabetes, and in physical rehabilitation settings. Sohail has worked in public and private hospitals, primary care, private clinics, non-profits, NGOs, start ups, and in community based organisations. Sohail currently works in North Shore hospital pain services, and in private practice primarily supporting ACC psychology referrals. When appropriate, he works to sensitively and collaboratively integrate cultural conceptualizations into psychological interventions. He has particularly valued working cross-culturally within Māori and Pasifika healthcare organizations, and with the Muslim community. The publication he is presenting stemmed from his Masters of Psychology research at Massey University with his supervisor Dr Andrea LaMarre.