Hamida Parkar, AASW

Hamida Parkar welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or difficult life changes. She helps individuals who are struggling with grief, relationship challenges, low confidence, or past trauma. Sessions aim to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk through what matters most to them.

Hamida uses straightforward, practical approaches that link thoughts and everyday habits to feelings and behaviour. She draws on cognitive and acceptance-based methods to help people test unhelpful thinking and choose actions that fit their values. Attachment-focused ideas help when relationships and early experiences shape current struggles.

With five years of direct counselling experience and earlier leadership in crisis work, Hamida offers both short-term skills and longer-term support options. Her background includes work in suicide prevention and crisis support, and several years focused on counselling people affected by abuse, domestic violence, anxiety and depression.

Hamida holds accreditation with the AASW, which stands for the Australian Association of Social Workers. She also has study in social work and additional certificates in trauma-informed practice and crisis support. These inform how she assesses safety and plans practical next steps.

She speaks English, Hindi and Marathi, and aims to adapt sessions to each person’s priorities. To start, she recommends people complete a short matching questionnaire so sessions can be scheduled to fit individual needs and goals.

How Hamida’s approaches translate to online work

Hamida often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her practice. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are strong. CBT focuses on noticing thought patterns and testing them with practical experiments to change behaviour and mood.

She also uses attachment-informed approaches when relationship patterns and early experiences affect current reactions. This helps people understand why certain situations feel triggering and develop new ways of relating to others and themselves.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work and happens together. She will talk through options, try techniques, and adjust plans based on what fits a person's goals and preferences. The collaboration helps tailor sessions to real-life needs.

The therapist's profile does not specify which session formats are offered, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit work on thoughts and everyday habits into a busy life by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins, or offering sessions that suit a work break or childcare needs. Appropriately qualified therapists can adapt exercises, worksheets and grounding techniques to an online setting so practical skill-building continues between sessions.