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
Profile of Mr Patrick A Manimaran
Get in touch with me
Patrick A Manimaran
counselling@adelaide.edu.au
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

Salvation Army Sobering Up Unit as Support Worker: November 2006 - June 2007

Anglicare Gambling Help Svs as Gambling Addiction Counsellor: June 2007 - October 2008

Gay Men's Health as Community Development Officer: November 2008 - March 2009

Sonder as Senior Mental Health Clinician: April 2009 to July 2019

Open Arms (Dept of Veteran Affairs) as Community Engagement Coordinator: October 2019 - April 2025

  • Graduate Diploma in Grief and Palliative Care Counselling
  • Master of Social Work

Accredited Mental Health Social Worker
Member of AASW
Last updated on 19/05/2026 by Patrick A Manimaran