Hamida Parkar, AASW

Hamida Parkar is an accredited social worker based in Australia who combines professional training with a compassionate, person-focused approach to therapy. She aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can explore stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem and confidence, depression, addictions, family issues, and other life challenges. Hamida works with adults across a broad range of issues including LGBT concerns, intimacy-related difficulties, eating and body image struggles, career and coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and a range of family and attachment matters.

Her practice is informed by evidence and integration - drawing on trauma-focused work, humanistic and client-centered ideas, recovery-oriented perspectives, behavioural approaches, ecological family systems thinking, response-based and narrative methods. That blend supports both short-term coping and longer-term healing, with attention to how crises can expose strengths as well as vulnerabilities. Hamida also brings experience in crisis support and suicide prevention and has provided counselling to people impacted by domestic and family violence, loss and grief, and complex trauma.

She holds accreditation as a social worker with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW - the national professional body that accredits and registers social workers in Australia) and is an Approved Victims Services Counsellor with the Department of Communities and Justice in NSW. Hamida completed a Bachelor of Sociology and a Master of Social Work and has undertaken certificates in trauma-informed practice, responses to sexual assault and domestic violence, group facilitation, and approaches to complex trauma. She provides therapy in English, Hindi, and Marathi and seeks to empower people to move at their own pace toward clearer direction and greater wellbeing.