About Joanna
Dr. Joanna (Ioanna) Karaoulani trained in psychology and counselling and has practised for 20 years. She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Joanna uses her background to offer calm, steady support for people feeling overwhelmed. Joanna listens with a person-centred stance. She focuses on helping people notice and understand their emotions.
Sessions explore what matters to the client and practical ways to manage stress and anxiety.
Background and approach
Her work is down to earth and direct. Joanna mixes talking with simple exercises you can try between sessions. She helps clients build skills for handling difficult thoughts, improving relationships, and coping with life changes.
Common concerns she addresses include stress and anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, depression, and career stress. Joanna also supports people dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment, guilt, shame, and isolation. Sessions are offered in English and Greek and she works with people across the United Kingdom and internationally.
She uses a range of therapeutic approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioural ideas, emotion-focused and client-centred methods to suit each person’s needs. Practical steps and steady support are key features of her approach.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, and then commit to actions that match what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of coping, which can reduce anxiety and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centres on feelings in close relationships and can help people understand and change patterns that cause pain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joanna will discuss these methods with each person and decide together which tools to use based on the person’s goals, preferences and the problems they bring. The plan can change as things progress so the approach stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distance. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins, short emotional support, or fit better into a work break. Together these options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Greek
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