About Karinna
Karinna Johnstone uses a client-centred approach to help people find practical ways forward. She is an AASW social worker with 18 years of experience supporting people facing anxiety, stress, trauma and grief. Karinna focuses on building confidence, coping skills and clearer ways to manage everyday pressures.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. Sessions often begin by working out what matters most to the person and setting small, achievable goals. She blends attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of reacting.
How Karinna works
Karinna also uses mindfulness and narrative approaches to support people who want to make sense of painful experiences. Mindfulness work helps with sleep problems, anxiety and stress. Narrative work helps people reframe difficult life chapters such as loss, abuse or major change.
She has particular experience helping people with parenting strain, compassion fatigue, ADHD and mood concerns including depression and bipolar disorder. Karinna offers practical strategies for managing anger, improving communication and coping with career or relationship stress. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online, using formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging.
She describes therapy as a collaborative process and works alongside each person to test what helps most for their life situation.
Karinna lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Karinna works with
The areas below are the ones Karinna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How Karinna’s approaches work online
Karinna combines client-centred practice with attachment-based and cognitive behavioural ideas to guide online work. Client-centred therapy means she follows the person’s lead, listening carefully and helping set goals that matter. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns influence current reactions and helps people build new ways of relating. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing practical changes in behaviour to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Karinna works collaboratively to choose methods that match a person’s goals, history and preferences. She will suggest ways to try different techniques and review what feels most useful over time.
Online sessions offer real flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face without travelling, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or eye contact is difficult, live chat suits quick check-ins and text messaging supports short, ongoing reflections between sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, parenting and other commitments.
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