About Remmawii
Remmawii (Karuna) Kristjanson brings three decades of clinical experience to conversations about addiction, trauma, grief, relationship strain, and major life changes. She works with people who feel stuck by shame, abandonment, or loneliness and helps them find practical steps forward. Her approach is compassionate and straightforward, with a focus on small, doable changes that add up over time.
She uses a mix of talk and body-focused techniques to help reduce stress and manage intense emotions.
Background and approach
Breathing exercises, guided meditation, gentle movement, art, and journaling may be included when useful. Sessions aim to calm the nervous system and create more room to think and feel without becoming overwhelmed. Her style is collaborative and person-focused.
She listens for each person’s values and goals, then tailors the work to those priorities. The conversation is practical and grounded, with clear tools to try between meetings. Remmawii has lived and worked in multiple countries, which informs her sensitivity to cross-cultural issues and differing life paths.
She is listed as LCSW, which reflects her clinical licensing in Georgia. Her long experience includes guiding people through addiction recovery, trauma healing, and rebuilding relationships after separation or loss. Beginning therapy with her typically involves identifying immediate concerns and setting short-term goals.
Over time the work can expand into deeper processing of attachment wounds, self-image, or life purpose. The focus is on steady progress and restoring a sense of agency.
Therapeutic approaches and flexible online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters most to a person and taking committed action toward those values. It helps people cope with painful thoughts and feelings without letting those experiences dictate their choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, offering practical skills to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns of closeness and trust and can help with problems like abandonment, insecurity, or repeating harmful relationship cycles.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than sticking rigidly to a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option and work well for focused check-ins. Live chat or text messaging can provide brief support between sessions, quick problem-solving, or flexible check-ins when schedules are tight. These options aim to increase accessibility and make consistent work possible across different circumstances.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English