Rida Khan, AASW

Rida Khan is an AASW social worker with three years of professional experience in Australia. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger and major life changes. Rida supports people from multicultural, migrant and refugee backgrounds, and those from LGBT+ and other intersectional communities, offering practical help and referrals to relevant Australian services when needed.

Rida uses a person-centred way of working. She aims to treat clients as equals and to build on each person’s practical strengths. Sessions focus on clear strategies people can use day to day, alongside discussions about how systemic and cultural pressures shape wellbeing.

She applies trauma-informed practice to issues such as religious abuse, radicalisation, violent extremism, war and genocide-related complex trauma. Rida also helps with childhood abuse, family violence and relationship-related abuse by explaining coping skills and safety-focused planning in straightforward terms.

Rida addresses perinatal concerns including postnatal rage and postnatal depression, and works on body image concerns that are linked to cultural bias and colonial histories. She also helps with caregiver stress, chronic illness and ageing-related questions, offering signposting to community supports where useful.

Her approach draws from psychosocial techniques within a decolonising and multicultural framework. Conversations are practical, frank and aimed at helping people set boundaries, manage difficult emotions and reduce the ways they lose themselves in relationships. Rida speaks English, Hindi and Urdu.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions