Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
Patrick is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker with over 17 years of experience supporting individuals and communities across Australia. Of Chinese-Indian heritage and originally from Malaysia, Patrick brings a deeply nuanced, intersectional lens to their practice—one shaped by their lived experience as a queer, non-binary person of colour navigating diasporic, colonial, and cross-cultural identities.
Their approach is relational, affirming, and trauma-informed, drawing on both clinical expertise and a profound understanding of how systems of power, culture, migration, gender, and sexuality intersect to shape mental health and wellbeing. Patrick is particularly passionate about working with clients whose identities sit at the margins—those who have been overlooked or misunderstood by mainstream services. Their practice is rooted in social justice, cultural humility, and the belief that healing is not just individual but collective.
Patrick has an eclectic and person-centred approach to counselling. He integrates cognitive behaviour therapy, mindfulness, narrative therapy, art therapy, EFT and psychodynamic approaches.
Special Interest:
· Grief and bereavement processing (especially disenfranchised grief processing)
· LGBTIQA+ related work inclusive of gender diversity
· Depression
· Anxiety
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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.
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