Rona Kinnersly , AASW

Rona Kinnersly is an AASW social worker with ten years' practical experience. She focuses on women's issues including trauma, relationship strain, anxiety and low self-esteem. Rona aims to make the first step easier by offering calm, straightforward support and a practical path forward.

Rona helps people who are coping with grief, compassion fatigue, addiction concerns, parenting strain and major life changes. She also supports people facing anger, career stress, intimacy-related worries and the effects of domestic violence. Her work often involves rebuilding confidence and finding ways to manage distress day to day.

Sessions are collaborative and person-centred. Rona listens first to understand each person's story, then suggests small, manageable steps. She uses clear skills and exercises you can practise between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve coping.

Her approach draws on acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-informed thinking, cognitive behavioural tools and elements of dialectical behaviour therapy. Mindfulness practices are used to help with grounding and emotion regulation. Rona emphasises strengths and practical change rather than labels.

Rona is based in Australia and works in English. She encourages people to take their time when choosing therapy and to start with a short conversation to see if it feels like a good fit. Signing up for support is a concrete first step she says is worth recognising.

Practical therapeutic approaches for online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and emotions without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small steps toward a more meaningful life, which can help with anxiety, low mood and life transitions.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand relational triggers and learn new ways of connecting and feeling safe in relationships, useful for intimacy issues and relationship distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rona takes a collaborative stance and will talk through different ways of working to match approaches to a person's needs, goals and preferences. She adapts sessions over time as needs change.

Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, live chat can be used for brief exchanges, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and everyday life while still practising the skills learned in sessions.