About Joanna
Dr Joanna (Ioanna) Karaoulani is a counsellor with two decades of experience. She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She welcomes conversations in English and Greek and works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns.
She helps people notice and understand their emotions. Sessions focus on how to relate to feelings differently, reduce distress, and make choices that fit what matters to them.
Background and approach
Joanna frames therapy as a collaborative process where the client sets goals and she offers tools and support to reach them. Her practice addresses a wide range of issues including trauma and abuse, parenting strain, intimacy-related concerns, self-esteem and anger. She also supports those dealing with caregiver stress, attachment wounds, abandonment fears, and family of origin problems.
Practical coping for life changes and career concerns are part of her work too. Joanna draws on several approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioural and acceptance-oriented work to manage strong emotions and unhelpful patterns.
Emotion-focused and client-centred ways of working shape how she responds in the room, keeping the person’s experience central. Sessions are offered online in the United Kingdom and to international clients. People can expect a steady, respectful style that combines emotional understanding with practical steps.
Joanna aims to help people move from feeling stuck to making clearer choices in their lives.
How Joanna blends therapy approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed. It focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward a fuller life, useful for anxiety, low mood and life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It offers practical strategies to test unhelpful beliefs and change patterns that maintain distress, often used for anxiety and depression.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joanna will discuss options with each person and together they decide what fits best based on needs, goals and preferences. The process is collaborative and can adapt as progress is made.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can fit into a break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, family and travel commitments, while still using the same therapeutic methods and tools.
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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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