Patrick Manimaran (Social Worker)
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 Interests:
- Grief and bereavement processing (especially disenfranchised grief processing)
- LGBTIQA+ related work inclusive of gender diversity
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Trauma work
- Addiction work
Fees
- Individual $200 per 1 hour session
- Medicare rebate available with Mental Health Care Plan $87.25 (Out of Pocket $112.75)
- NO NDIS or RTWSA