Rida Khan

Rida Khan is an AASW social worker with three years of professional experience in Australia. She offers a person-centred, culturally aware approach that aims to strengthen social supports and link people to relevant services when needed. Rida speaks English, Hindi and Urdu and often works with clients from migrant, refugee and diverse cultural backgrounds. Her practice focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger and coping with life changes. She also helps with issues such as body image, postnatal distress, attachment concerns and the long-term effects of complex trauma. Rida uses psychosocial methods within a decolonising and multicultural framework to acknowledge cultural context and systemic factors. Rida describes her style as equal and collaborative. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and practical psychosocial tools to build on a person’s strengths. Sessions look at everyday coping strategies, communication skills and connections to community supports when those will help. She pays particular attention to experiences shaped by culture, religion and migration. This includes work around religious abuse, radicalisation, violent extremism, war-related trauma and the effects of colonisation on body image and identity. Rida also supports people navigating caregiver stress, chronic illness and bereavement. People who prefer a therapist who centres cultural safety and power-aware practice may find her approach helpful. The focus is on practical steps, clearer day-to-day coping and accessing services in Australia where appropriate.

Approaches that guide online counselling

Rida works from evidence-based therapeutic techniques and psychosocial methods that reflect a decolonising and multicultural perspective. One common approach she uses is person-centred work, which focuses on listening, validating a person’s experience and building on their strengths to solve everyday problems and improve relationships. Another key strand is trauma-informed practice, which pays attention to how past harm affects current coping and helps people develop pacing, grounding and emotion-regulation strategies. Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Rida aims to explore options together and decide which methods match a person’s needs, goals and cultural context. She treats the plan as collaborative and changes direction when something isn’t working or life circumstances shift. For practicalities, confirm current session options before booking as the biography does not list specific formats. Many people find online work useful for fitting therapy into a busy week, keeping appointments without travel and making it easier to access a therapist who understands migration and cultural issues. Online sessions can allow for shorter check-ins when needed, or longer appointments when there is space to go deeper, and the therapist will discuss what rhythm suits each person.