About Jemma
Jemma Johnson uses attachment-based and client-centred approaches to help people feel steadier in day-to-day life. Jemma is an AASW social worker with six years' experience and a practical, down-to-earth style. Sessions aim to be relaxed and collaborative so people can take small steps forward.
She works in English from Australia and offers online formats for flexibility. Jemma focuses on stress, anxiety and depression alongside trauma and abuse. She also helps with ADHD, autism and issues around identity, gender and the LGBT community.
How Jemma works
Practical concerns such as addictions, eating concerns, low self-esteem and relationship problems are part of her practice as well. The counselling style is neuro-affirming and creative. Jemma adapts to how each person thinks and learns, using techniques like mapping thought patterns, body-doubling for task-focused work, and walking sessions outdoors.
These approaches aim to reduce overwhelm and build everyday coping skills. Jemma draws on cognitive behavioural ideas and emotion-focused work to address unhelpful thoughts and strengthen emotional understanding. Dialectical behaviour skills are used where intense emotions or impulsivity cause problems.
The emphasis is on concrete strategies people can use between sessions. People describe the sessions as practical and human. Jemma helps with longer-term themes like attachment and abandonment, and with specific problems such as obsessions, compulsions and codependency.
The process is collaborative and paced to suit each person's needs.
Jemma lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Jemma works with
The areas below are the ones Jemma selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How Jemma’s approaches work in online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how past and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. It helps people understand patterns of connection and repair, which can reduce repeated hurt and improve emotional safety in relationships.Client-centred therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens without judgement, follows the person’s pace and supports self-directed growth, which is useful for identity, self-worth and life purpose concerns.
Finding the right way of working is part of the therapy process. Jemma will work with each person to choose or combine approaches based on goals, needs and how they prefer to communicate. That collaborative decision is revisited as things change over time.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging can suit brief check-ins, people who prefer typing, or those building up to longer sessions.
These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, keep momentum between sessions, and try different ways of working until the best fit is found. Appropriately qualified therapists, like an AASW social worker, adapt techniques to each format so the work remains practical and goal-focused.
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