About Tinchu
Tinchu Kumar is a social worker and therapist with 15 years of experience across Australia and New Zealand. She has worked in public mental health, early psychosis teams, child and youth services, trauma support and alcohol and other drug settings. Tinchu creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about difficult experiences and begin to make changes that matter to them.
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationships and the effects of trauma and abuse.
How Tinchu works
Tinchu also addresses issues such as low self-esteem, emotional regulation difficulties and post-traumatic stress. Her background includes helping with addiction concerns, domestic violence impacts, immigration challenges and multicultural issues. Tinchu’s approach is trauma-informed, strengths-based and person-centred.
She adapts her work to each person and may include structured talking approaches, techniques that target core beliefs, and creative methods to help express difficult feelings. Parents reporting behavioural or emotional concerns in children and adolescents will find she collaborates closely with them. She has held senior roles in health and community services and draws on that experience to use evidence-based practices.
Tinchu welcomes people from diverse cultural backgrounds and aims to make therapy respectful and empowering. She works in English and brings practical focus to sessions so people leave with clear next steps. To begin, clients follow the site process to match with her and schedule sessions according to availability.
Session arrangements and costs vary with location and use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What Tinchu works with
The areas below are the ones Tinchu selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Immigration issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Tinchu draws on evidence-based techniques to guide sessions in clear, practical ways. For example, cognitive behavioural approaches help people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns, which can reduce anxiety and low mood. Schema-focused work looks at long-standing patterns and beliefs that affect relationships and self-worth, helping people build healthier ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Tinchu treats therapy as a collaborative process and will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs when deciding which techniques to use. She adapts methods over time based on how a person responds.
Session logistics should be confirmed before booking since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Ask about current session options and scheduling when you start the process to find arrangements that fit everyday life.
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