About Karyn
Karyn Krawford is a counsellor who uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage anxiety and stress. She works in a straightforward way that focuses on what is happening now and what can change. Karyn explains things plainly and helps people name their feelings and responses so they can make clearer choices.
She mixes methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to match what each person needs.
Background and approach
That can mean learning new ways to respond to anxious thoughts, practising small behavioural changes, or looking at patterns that formed in earlier relationships. Sessions include psychoeducation about communication, emotional regulation and how stress changes behaviour. Karyn has seven years of psychotherapy and counselling experience in Australia and holds PACFA as a listed credential.
She also brings a background as a social scientist and uses that to notice cultural and organisational influences on mental health. This perspective can be helpful for people who want to understand how wider systems shape their feelings. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space for conversations.
Therapy is collaborative - Karyn helps people set goals and tries things that fit their life. People can expect clear explanations and concrete strategies rather than jargon. Beginning therapy can feel hard, and Karyn acknowledges that step.
She encourages people to share any preferences or special interests so sessions are relevant and respectful to their experiences.
How therapy approaches translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Online ACT sessions often include exercises to practise noticing thoughts and short behavioural experiments between meetings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches clear techniques for managing anxiety and depressive symptoms. In an online setting CBT can use worksheets, brief behavioural tasks and step-by-step skill building. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns that formed in earlier relationships and how they affect current connections; it can help when relationship dynamics or attachment issues drive anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karyn discusses options with each person and adapts methods to their goals and life. That means jointly choosing whether to focus on skills training, exploring relationship patterns, or combining both, and adjusting pace and tools to what feels useful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as fitting sessions into busy schedules and choosing formats that suit different moments. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits shorter check-ins and text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to attend while maintaining the same therapeutic aims.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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