Mathialakan "Patrick" A Manimaran

Mathialakan “Patrick” A Manimaran is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker with 12 years of practice supporting individuals and communities across Australia. He draws on clinical training and lived experience to offer an intersectional, culturally informed perspective on mental health and wellbeing.

Of Chinese-Indian heritage and originally from Malaysia, Patrick brings a nuanced understanding of diasporic, colonial and cross-cultural identities. He identifies as queer and non-binary, and this personal context shapes his commitment to working with people whose experiences sit at the margins of mainstream services.

Patrick’s therapeutic stance is relational, affirming and trauma-informed. He centres social justice and cultural humility in his work and holds the belief that healing occurs both individually and collectively. His practice focuses on creating a respectful space for stories that have been overlooked or misunderstood.

He follows an eclectic, person-centred approach, integrating cognitive behaviour therapy, mindfulness, narrative therapy, art therapy, EFT and psychodynamic methods to tailor treatment to each person’s needs. Patrick has a special interest in grief and bereavement - particularly disenfranchised grief - as well as LGBTIQA+ related work inclusive of gender diversity, depression and anxiety.