About Rida
Rida Khan is an AASW social worker with three years of professional experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger and big life changes. Rida speaks English, Hindi and Urdu and aims to make therapy feel straightforward and respectful.
Rida works from a person-centred stance that emphasises each person’s strengths. She uses psychosocial techniques within a decolonising and multicultural framework. That means therapy looks at individual feelings alongside wider social and cultural pressures that affect wellbeing.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses anxiety and stress with simple, teachable strategies people can use between sessions. She also supports those coping with grief, postnatal difficulties, body image issues and trauma related to childhood abuse, family violence or community violence. Rida pays attention to cultural harms such as religious abuse, radicalisation and harms linked to war and genocide.
Rida helps people who face systemic barriers, including migrants, refugees and people from multicultural or intersectional backgrounds. She offers relevant referrals to services in Australia when that can help practical needs alongside therapy. Conversations are aimed at building coping skills and clearer plans for everyday living.
Her approach is collaborative and power-informed. Rida treats clients as equals and works to reorient focus onto inner strengths. She frames therapeutic work as part of healing and resistance to colonial harms, helping people move toward meaningful personal goals.
Evidence-based approaches and online access
Rida draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that are practical and adaptable. One common approach she uses teaches simple skills for managing anxiety and stress, such as breathing work, grounding and stepwise behavioural tasks to reduce overwhelm. These techniques help when worry or panic make everyday tasks hard.She also uses trauma-informed psychosocial methods that focus on safety, pacing and meaning-making. This approach supports people recovering from abuse, war-related harm or complex trauma by helping them rebuild routine, sense of self and coping strategies. A third strand is a culturally informed, person-centred method that centres the client’s background and strengths while addressing social or systemic barriers to wellbeing.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and try techniques together to see what fits. If needed, she will suggest referrals to other Australian services that support practical needs alongside therapy.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quicker check-ins and text messaging can suit short reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to work around work, family and other commitments while accessing an appropriately qualified therapist.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Urdu
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