About Karena
Karena Jowsey is an AASW-accredited social worker who supports people dealing with stress and anxiety. She offers calm, respectful care and helps clients take small steps toward feeling steadier. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at practical change rather than jargon.
Karena uses a trauma-informed and person-centred approach. That means she listens first, and shapes sessions around what matters to each person. She focuses on building safety, understanding past experiences, and finding ways to cope that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
Her counselling work covers trauma and abuse, low mood and depression, self-esteem and confidence, and major life changes. She also has experience addressing issues common among first responders and the pressures those roles bring. Sessions look at what people are managing now and what they want to be different.
Karena keeps language simple and actions clear. She helps people identify practical skills for stress and anxiety, and supports gradual steps toward new habits. She treats each person with sensitivity and avoids one-size-fits-all solutions.
People who come to her can expect a collaborative process. Goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made. Karena sees taking that first step as an act of courage and aims to make the rest of the journey manageable and hopeful.
Approaches that translate well to online counselling
Karena draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that work well in remote sessions. She uses trauma-informed person-centred care which focuses on understanding your experience and building a safe, steady pace for work together. This helps when processing past distress or abuse and when learning to manage strong emotions.She also draws on practical skill-based approaches to address anxiety and stress. These approaches teach simple strategies you can use between sessions to reduce worry, manage mood, and improve day-to-day coping. They often involve short exercises and small behaviour changes practiced in real life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will discuss your goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt methods to suit you. That collaborative planning helps make sessions relevant and achievable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, so you can pick what fits your routine. Video is useful for in-depth work and visual connection, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options help make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and busy days.
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What this therapist works with
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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