Minda Kipara, AASW

Minda Kipara is an AASW social worker with 14 years of professional experience in Australia. She works with people carrying stress, anxiety, relationship and family struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, compassion fatigue and feelings of guilt and shame.

Minda keeps sessions direct and practical. She listens for what matters most, then helps people find small shifts they can practise between meetings. Her approach mixes acceptance-based ideas, mindful skills and emotion-focused work to help people handle strong feelings and difficult conversations.

Clients can expect a conversational style that focuses on real problems. Minda uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to notice painful thoughts without being driven by them. She draws on Client-Centred Therapy to keep the session focused on the person’s experience rather than imposing a checklist.

She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy techniques when relationships and attachments are central. Mindfulness practices are offered for grounding during times of overwhelm. Motivational Interviewing may be used when people are weighing difficult changes or trying to stick with new patterns.

Minda has particular experience with abandonment and attachment issues, caregiver stress, communication and control problems, separation and forgiveness, and the lasting shame that follows painful events. She aims to make therapy work with everyday life, helping people practise different ways of responding rather than only analysing the past.

How Minda uses therapy approaches online