About Jemma
Jemma Johnson is an AASW therapeutic social worker who focuses on practical support for anxiety and related concerns. Jemma uses a down-to-earth, neuro-affirming style to help people reduce overwhelm and build routines that feel manageable. Sessions are relaxed and collaborative.
Jemma lets clients set the pace and chooses creative ways to work together, such as walking sessions, body-doubling for tasks, or mapping thinking patterns. The aim is steady, real-life progress rather than quick fixes.
Background and approach
Jemma has six years of experience in community and therapeutic settings. That background supports work with stress, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, eating concerns, and relationship difficulties. Jemma also focuses on ADHD, autism and identity issues within queer and LGBT communities.
The approach centres attachment-informed and client-centred ideas alongside practical strategies from cognitive behavioural work and dialectical skills. Emotional processing and strengthening safe connections are used when helpful. Sessions include skill practice, problem-solving and curiosity about how patterns started.
People who prefer flexible, lived-experience-informed therapy often find this style useful. Jemma aims to make therapy fit daily life, not the other way around. The work suits people wanting to unmask, rebuild identity and increase confidence one step at a time.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Jemma draws on attachment-based work to look at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses. This helps when patterns of fear, abandonment or repeated relationship struggles are causing distress. Client-centred therapy is also central, which means sessions follow the person's priorities and pace, and the counsellor listens closely before suggesting changes.Cognitive behavioural therapy provides practical tools to manage anxiety and unhelpful thinking. That work often includes small experiments, thought mapping and step-by-step behaviour changes to reduce overwhelm and build confidence. Jemma blends these approaches so each plan is tailored to a person's needs and goals, and she invites clients to decide what feels most useful in sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work visually and keep a stronger therapist-client connection. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break at work. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice or when typing helps organise thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep working on goals between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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