Fazlinda Faroo is a social worker with close to 30 years of experience in working with Muslim families and youths. She started out as a youth outreach worker engaging and running programs targeted at youths at risk before delving into public policy designing family-based services for the sector. She eventually found her feet in counselling and therapy working with high conflict couples and supporting single parents and their children through their journey of grief and loss. Adapt in the art of counselling and groupwork with diverse populations, Fazlinda’s passion now lies in program development, training and research in the social service sector. Her expertise includes therapeutic intervention in the areas of grief & loss, family and marriage, with added specializations in working with the Muslim communities. Fazlinda is also a trainer for social service providers as well as a lecturer and supervisor of undergraduate students in the field of social work. In the past 6 years she has delved in crisis work with family violence survivors and moved into the preventive education space specializing in community work with Muslim and CALD communities delivering upon various preventive groupwork based initiatives on issues of family violence, early and forced marriage, women’s rights and leadership, relationship and parenthood and settlement amongst others. Fazlinda holds a Masters in Social Work from Monash University, a PostGraduate Diploma in Social Research (Sociology) and a Hons in Social work and Psychology. She is also certified in Narrative Therapy (Dulwich Centre) and an accredited DISC Personality consultant. She has further obtained a Diploma in Islamic Studies from the International Islamic University Malaysia. Her academic achievements included a Book Prize from the International Islamic University Malaysia, and Special Book Prize in Social Work awarded by the National University of Singapore. She is currently a member of the Australian Association of Social Workers and the Singapore Association of Social Workers.