Rida Khan, AASW

Rida Khan is an AASW social worker with three years of professional experience in Australia. She works with people from multicultural, migrant and refugee backgrounds, and those from LGBT+ and other intersectional communities. Rida focuses on common concerns such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger and coping with major life changes.

Her practice centres on person-centred work that recognises each client’s unique story. She uses psychosocial techniques drawn from evidence-based therapeutic methods and frames her work through decolonising and multicultural lenses. This means she pays attention to cultural context, historical harms and power imbalances that affect wellbeing.

Rida offers trauma-informed care for complex experiences, including childhood trauma, family violence, religious abuse, radicalisation and the impacts of war or genocide. She also supports people dealing with body image concerns shaped by cultural bias, postnatal mental health issues, and the particular stresses faced by caregivers.

In sessions she aims to strengthen a person’s inner resources while helping navigate practical referrals and social supports available in Australia. Rida describes her practice as power-informed, where the therapist and client work as equals to address both personal and systemic barriers.

Her work includes help for people coping with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment or personality-related concerns, chronic illness and disability, codependency, communication or commitment problems, and responses to natural or human-caused disasters.

Therapeutic approaches and online options

Rida uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside a person-centred framework. Person-centred work focuses on listening, validating experience and helping people discover their own solutions; it suits people wanting a collaborative, strengths-based conversation. Trauma-informed approaches pay close attention to past harm and aim to create steady, manageable steps toward feeling safer and more in control, which can help with complex trauma, grief and abuse-related issues.

Finding the right combination of approaches is a shared process. Rida works with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals and cultural context. She emphasises collaboration and will adapt techniques as therapy progresses to suit a client’s preferences and circumstances.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking, as the biography does not list specific online formats. Ask about the available session types when you complete the matching questionnaire. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use quieter surroundings, avoid camera use, or schedule sessions during a work break, depending on the format offered by the therapist.