Mr Patrick A Manimaran
(He/She)
Counsellor
Organisation unit
Student Experience and Success
Student Success
Student Wellbeing and Safety
Location
Adelaide University, Building C, Mawson Lakes Campus, Level 1
Contact
Availability
I work Tuesday to Friday from 9.30am - 5.30pm
About me
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
Last updated
on 19/05/2026
by Patrick A Manimaran