Tinchu Kumar, AASW

Tinchu Kumar is a social worker and counsellor with 15 years of experience in mental health across Australia and New Zealand. She brings a calm, practical presence and aims to make conversations straightforward and useful for people in distress. Tinchu creates a respectful space so clients can say what matters and start making changes at their own pace.

Before moving into private practice, she worked in public mental health, early psychosis services, child and youth programs, trauma support, and alcohol and other drug settings. That variety means she has seen many ways people cope when life becomes hard and can draw on different responses depending on the situation.

Tinchu uses a trauma-informed, strengths-based and person-centred style. She adapts what she offers to fit each person’s needs, drawing from a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques. Her work often focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, self-esteem and depression.

She also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, dissociation, mood disorders, substance concerns, immigration and multicultural challenges, and self-harm. Tinchu makes space for difficult emotions and helps people find clearer ways to cope and relate.

Tinchu values cultural diversity and aims to make therapy inclusive and respectful. She welcomes conversations about practical goals and everyday strategies, and she works with clients to decide the best next steps for their situation.

Evidence-based approaches and online therapy

Many of Tinchu's core methods draw on evidence-based therapeutic techniques. Cognitive behavioural approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thinking and building practical coping skills to reduce anxiety and low mood. Schema-informed work looks at long-standing patterns that affect relationships and self-worth, helping people notice and change repeating cycles.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Tinchu collaborates with each person to match methods to their needs, goals and preferences. She explains options, tries different strategies when needed, and reviews progress together so the approach fits the person rather than the other way around.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know what formats are offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and let people connect from where they are. It can also suit shorter check-ins or step-by-step work when attention spans or energy are limited, and it lets a therapist and client continue momentum between in-person appointments when that is helpful.