Remmawii (Karuna) Kristjanson, LCSW, CSW

Remmawii (Karuna) Kristjanson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing addiction, relationship stress, trauma, grief, and major life changes. She brings three decades of experience and a calm, steady presence to conversations about hurt and healing. Her work centers on helping people find practical tools to manage strong emotions and rebuild daily life.

She combines talk therapy with body-focused techniques like breathwork, guided meditation, and gentle movement drawn from her background as a yoga and meditation teacher and Reiki Master. Those somatic practices are used to soothe the nervous system and reduce physical tension that often comes with trauma and stress. She also uses journaling and art as ways to notice patterns and reflect between sessions.

Her approach is collaborative and personal. Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs, history, and cultural background. She mentions a long history of living and traveling across several countries and brings sensitivity to cross-cultural issues encountered by people from diverse places.

Clinically, she draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral tools, client-centered listening, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. These methods are used to address problems like abandonment, communication breakdown, shame, and post-traumatic stress.

Remmawii holds LCSW and CSW credentials and works from Georgia. She supports people who want to reconnect with themselves, repair relationships, or find new ways to cope after loss or change.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values. It can help with addiction, grief, and making life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and communication. It helps people understand attachment, work through abandonment fears, and build more steady ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past history, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress happens.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, shorten travel time, and allow for brief check-ins when schedules are tight. They also allow use of guided breathing, journaling prompts, and movement exercises during sessions to practice skills in the moment. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to the online setting so work continues between meetings.