Kara John

Kara John is a highly regarded and insightful counsellor with many years’ experience working in the field who holds registration with PACFA. As a practitioner, she is trauma informed and client-led, ensuring her therapy sessions are conducted in a safe, ethical, and professional manner which routinely delivers great outcomes for her clients.

Kara is passionate about helping her clients uncover the root cause of the behaviours and patterns that bring her clients to therapy. By addressing this, she empowers clients to finally be free of these issues instead of using band-aid approaches. She achieves this through evidence-based interventions that work on the underlying core issues and blends this with hands-on, practical strategies that can be implemented for immediate improvements. Clients seeking meaningful and real change are supported by the therapeutic relationship that Kara creates, helping them feel safe and free from judgement.

With all her clients, Kara holds the unwavering belief that no matter how hopeless things may seem, positive change will happen when working together with the right strategies. Key to this is her collaboration with clients in understanding their goals for therapy and helping create the pathway towards this. From here, she draws on a range of different types of therapy to work towards the goal, such as Emotion focused therapy, Mindfulness, Internal Family Systems, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Solution-Focused therapy, plus others. Kara ensures she thoroughly assesses and understands her clients in order to select the most appropriate interventions based on the client’s needs, personality, issue and stage of change. She frequently reviews progress and refines these interventions based on client feedback and success.

• Master of Counselling & Psychotherapy
• Bachelor of Arts (Behavioural Science)
• Graduate Diploma of Counselling