Rida Khan, AASW

Rida Khan is an AASW social worker with three years of professional experience in Australia. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, anger and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She also supports those coping with major life changes and related practical challenges.

Rida often works with clients from multicultural, migrant and refugee backgrounds, and with people from LGBT+ and intersectional communities. She uses a person-centred way of working that treats the client and therapist as equals. That means conversations focus on practical strengths and clear steps rather than labels or complex jargon.

Her practice brings psychosocial techniques together with a decolonising and multicultural framework. That approach looks at how cultural bias, colonisation and social barriers affect mood, body image and relationships. When needed she discusses relevant referrals to Australian services and supports to make those next steps more realistic.

Rida names specific areas she addresses, including postnatal rage and postnatal depression, religious abuse and radicalisation-related trauma, and complex trauma from war and genocide. She also helps people manage anger, communication and control issues, codependency and caregiver stress in day-to-day life.

Sessions tend to be practical conversations about what is happening now and what can change. Rida shares psychosocial strategies clients can try between sessions. She frames inner work as part of resisting systemic harms and strengthening personal coping in everyday life.

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