About Karyn
Karyn Simon is an AASW social worker with over 10 years helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief and change. She offers steady, practical support for everyday problems and big life shifts. Karyn works with people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward.
Her experience includes supporting veterans, and individuals affected by domestic and family violence, trauma and loss. She also helps people facing depression, postpartum changes, and post-traumatic stress.
Background and approach
Karyn pays attention to the practical impacts of these issues on daily life and routines. Many people see her for help with communication problems, struggles around control, or the strain of caregiving. She also supports those dealing with addiction, relationship breakdown, guilt, isolation and questions about life purpose.
Karyn offers a calm space to talk things through and to work out manageable steps. Her approach treats clients as the experts in their own lives. Sessions focus on reconnecting with strengths and learning clear skills to reduce distress.
Karyn aims for realistic goals and simple tools that fit into a busy life. She understands midlife transitions can feel especially hard for women and can help when identity or role changes cause stress. If you are weighing changes or carrying complex losses, she will listen carefully and help you find practical ways forward.
Online approaches that help with anxiety and life change
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques often include practical, skill-based work and trauma-informed care. Skill-based approaches teach specific tools to manage anxiety and stress, such as breathing, grounding and activity planning, so people have tools to use between sessions. Trauma-informed ways of working focus on safety, pacing and stabilisation, helping people who have experienced abuse or loss to reduce overwhelm and build coping strategies.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will discuss your symptoms, goals and preferences and together you will decide which methods to try. This collaborative process means the plan can change as progress is made or new needs appear.
Online therapy offers flexible options including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let you work face-to-face from home or work, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break. Live chat or messaging suits short check-ins, written reflection, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it simpler to fit regular sessions into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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