Karishma Chandiramani, PACFA

Karishma Chandiramani is a registered counsellor with 22 years of experience helping people navigate life’s messy, uncertain, and often overwhelming moments. She works primarily with young adults and those facing transitions - from career crossroads and relationship breakdowns to burnout, anxiety, and the sense of feeling stuck. Her practice focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, self-esteem, career concerns, and coping with life changes, with additional attention to attachment issues, body image, chronic pain and illness, commitment and control concerns, communication problems, and related areas.

Karishma approaches therapy from a stance that clients do not need fixing but often need space, support, and a gentle nudge to reconnect with their own wisdom. She blends practical strategies with deep listening, mindset work, and compassionate care to create a real, respectful, and empowering experience. Her style aims to help clients find calm, clarity, and a way forward through one honest conversation at a time - sometimes accompanied by a cup of chai and a warm, collaborative presence.

She holds PACFA credentials - the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia - indicating membership in a national professional association for counsellors and psychotherapists. Karishma provides therapy in English and Hindi and practices from Australia, offering approaches that emphasize empowerment, skill building, and thoughtful support tailored to each person's goals.

Evidence-Based Techniques for Online Change

Karishma uses evidence-based, practical approaches that translate well to remote work. One focus is mindset-oriented work - brief, accessible strategies that help people reframe unhelpful thoughts and build more helpful ways of thinking. This approach is useful for anxiety, low self-esteem, and feeling stuck because it targets patterns that maintain distress.

She also uses skills-based and problem-solving strategies that teach coping tools and step-by-step plans for managing stress, burnout, relationship conflicts, and life transitions. These techniques aim to provide immediate tools clients can apply between sessions to reduce overwhelm and increase agency.

Finding the most effective approach is part of the therapy process. Karishma collaborates with each person to identify goals, preferences, and practical needs, then tailors techniques so the work fits the individual rather than the other way around.

Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for people juggling work, family, or health challenges. These options make it easier to access licensed professionals from home or on the go, schedule sessions around busy lives, and continue steady progress even when circumstances change.