Malinda Um, AASW
8 years in practice
Malinda Um is an AASW social worker who helps people feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected.
License and registration
- AASW
- 460049 · expires June 2026
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Malinda
Malinda Um is an AASW social worker who helps people feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected. She aims to make first steps feel manageable and practical for worried parents and busy people. Her tone is calm and straightforward so conversations are easy to follow.
Malinda focuses on problems such as anxiety, depression, trauma and burnout. She also supports people dealing with grief, parenting strain, relationship and family problems, work stress and life changes.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how past relationships and attachment patterns shape current feelings and choices. Her sessions blend conversational work with practical tasks. Conversations identify patterns, then small experiments and changes are tried between sessions.
She uses approaches like Systemic Therapy to look at relationships and contexts, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and action, and Attachment-Based ideas to repair connection and safety. Malinda has eight years of experience working in Australia. She brings experience with cross-cultural issues and family of origin concerns, and she supports people carrying heavy responsibilities or caregiving strain.
Work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. People can expect clear goals, down-to-earth language and strategies they can use day to day. The focus is on manageable change rather than quick fixes, with attention to what will fit into a busy life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Malinda lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Malinda names
- Systemic Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches and online support that fit your life
Systemic Therapy looks beyond one person and explores how relationships and patterns influence current struggles. It helps when problems feel tied to roles, routines or the wider family context. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on what matters to you and on taking values-based actions even when feelings are difficult. It suits people who want practical steps to live in line with their priorities. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early connections shape trust, safety and emotion regulation, and it can help when people want to repair how they relate to others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals and preferences and then try approaches that fit. That process is collaborative and paced to what the person can manage, with regular check-ins to see what helps.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet: video calls for a full face-to-face feel, phone sessions when bandwidth or mobility is limited, and live chat or text for brief check-ins and between-session support. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caring commitments or busy schedules, and let people choose the format that feels most practical for them.
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Questions people ask
What sorts of concerns can be addressed?
She works with anxiety, depression, trauma and burnout, plus relationship and family problems, grief, parenting strain, anger and career stress.
What is the therapist's style in sessions?
Sessions are practical and collaborative, using conversation plus small tasks to test changes between meetings.
How much clinical experience does the therapist have?
Malinda has eight years of professional experience working with people across a range of concerns in Australia.
What credentials and location are listed?
The profile lists AASW as the credential and indicates practice in Australia.
Are sessions offered in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
Which session formats are available?
Therapy is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging.
How does cost work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
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