Director
Jo-Anne Karlsson has had personal experience of living with, and leaving a narcissist; been a step parent to three others, as well as having her own children and becoming legal guardian of her young niece. Due to personal experience Jo-Anne works with adolescents, those who are going through, or thinking of divorce or separation, and those individuals affected by abuse and Narcissists. Jo-Anne also administers a variety of Psychological tests such as the Rorschach for Organisations, the Courts and private clients. As well as recently acquiring and teaching the LEAP Equine model, which is the leading Equine Facilitated Training in the UK.
Jo-Anne has lived and worked in the UK, the USA, Spain and Singapore. During this time Jo-Anne has worked with families and young children at the Child Institute of Mental Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital interviewing and administering a variety of tests on the Autism Spectrum. At Sundown Ranch Inc, an adolescent rehabilitation centre in Texas, Jo-Anne worked alongside an experienced team of Counsellors, Psychiatrists and a Mental Health team helping teens and their families with their trauma and addictions. In Singapore Jo-Anne worked alongside their full-time Psychologist in a program for at-risk youth at EQUAL-ARK, offering an intensive 3 hour weekly session for 16 weeks.
Jo-Anne is a member of British Psychological Society (BPS), the American Psychologists Association (APA), the American Association of Marital and Family Therapists (AAMFT) in the US; and the Association of Family Therapists (AFT) here in the UK. Jo-Anne follows the ethical guidelines of the AAMFT, the BPS and the National Board of Certified Counselors in the USA. Jo-Anne is currently going through the Licensure process to become an LMFT in the state of Illinois, USA.
- University of Surrey – Bachelors in Psychology