Karen Mbiriri, AASW

Karen Mbiriri is an AASW social worker with four years of practice supporting people through life transitions and emotional challenges. She works from a person-centred and strength-based perspective, meeting individuals where they are and collaborating around their values and goals to build practical steps forward. Her approach focuses on identifying existing strengths, exploring coping options, and helping people develop resilience and hope even during difficult times.

Karen has experience helping people manage stress and anxiety, navigate relationship difficulties, cope with grief, and work through anger and depression. She also supports concerns such as body image, chronic pain, illness and disability, communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, financial stress, post-traumatic stress, pregnancy and childbirth, self-harm, self-love, and social anxiety and phobia. She aims to empower people to make meaningful change by walking alongside them, listening attentively, and helping them find practical, achievable solutions. Karen combines evidence-based therapeutic techniques with a collaborative style so that each plan reflects the person’s needs and priorities in the Australian context.