Hamida Parkar, AASW

Hamida Parkar is an AASW social worker with five years of practice in counselling and psychosocial support in Australia. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship strain, grief, and issues around self-esteem and motivation. She speaks English, Hindi and Marathi.

Hamida frames sessions around straightforward conversation and practical coping ideas. She listens for what is most pressing and helps clients try small changes that make daily life easier. Her work draws on several evidence-informed approaches so she can match techniques to a person's situation and goals.

Her background includes crisis support and suicide prevention leadership, where she supervised and mentored staff. That work shaped how she notices risks, supports people in urgent distress, and plans ongoing care beyond a crisis moment. She also has experience counselling people affected by domestic and family violence and complex trauma.

Hamida completed a Master of Social Work and holds accreditation with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW). She has additional training in trauma-informed practice, responding to sexual assault and domestic violence, group facilitation, and working with complex trauma.

In sessions she uses practical tools from approaches such as cognitive behavioural methods, acceptance and commitment techniques, attachment-informed ideas and emotion-focused skills. Conversations cover feelings, relationships, behaviour patterns and small, testable changes people can try between meetings.

To begin, she asks people to outline their current concerns and aims so the work can stay focused and realistic. The emphasis is on steady, manageable steps rather than quick fixes.

How Hamida uses evidence-based approaches online