Dr. Joanna (Ioanna) Karaoulani, BACP
20 years in practice
Dr Joanna (Ioanna) Karaoulani is a counsellor with two decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety and life changes.
License and registration
- BACP
- 385634 · expires October 2026
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English, Greek
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About Joanna
Dr Joanna (Ioanna) Karaoulani is a counsellor with two decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety and life changes. She is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom and sees clients in English and Greek. Her work draws on several well-known therapeutic approaches, including Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and she offers sessions online in several formats.
Joanna keeps sessions simple and practical. She listens first, then helps people name their feelings and understand how those feelings affect choices.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward tools from therapies such as acceptance and commitment work and cognitive behavioural ideas to build daily coping habits. Sessions aim to be calm and focused on what matters most to the client. Her background includes a mix of psychology and counselling qualifications, capped by a PhD in clinical psychology.
Over 20 years she has supported people through grief, trauma, depression and relationship struggles. She also works with concerns such as parenting stress, compassion fatigue, attachment and issues tied to immigration or family of origin. In sessions she encourages practical steps alongside emotional awareness.
This can mean learning how to notice unhelpful thinking, practising grounding skills, or trying new ways of communicating. The pace is set by the client and the aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Joanna offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, and she accepts international clients.
Costs vary with location and a subscription model is used that can be cancelled at any time.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Joanna lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Joanna names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Emotionally-Focused Therapy is about recognising and responding to core emotions. It helps people understand attachment needs and improves how they relate to important others by focusing on emotional experiences. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches practical skills to accept difficult thoughts and commit to actions that reflect personal values. It is useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life transitions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Joanna will discuss goals, worries and preferences with each person and then recommend ways of working that fit. That plan can be adapted as therapy progresses so the methods stay relevant to what the client needs in daily life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual contact helps, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when movement is needed, and messaging lets people check in more frequently with short updates or reflections. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caring roles or travel commitments.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship difficulties, along with parenting strain, career questions and compassion fatigue.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and practical. She listens, helps name emotions and works with straightforward tools to build coping skills and improve communication.
How much experience does she have?
She has 20 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of emotional and life challenges.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with academic training including a PhD in clinical psychology.
Which languages are supported and can she work internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and Greek, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are costs handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
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