Rona Kinnersly, AASW

Rona Kinnersly is an Australian-based social worker who holds AASW, indicating membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers, and brings more than 10 years of professional experience. She has developed a particular expertise in supporting people with relationship challenges and works as an accredited family violence therapist to assist women and other people healing from trauma. Rona supports clients managing stress, anxiety, parenting difficulties, motivation, self-esteem and confidence, and she has experience addressing compassion fatigue.

Her practice also covers a broad range of concerns including addictions, family and grief work, intimacy-related issues, anger, career questions, depression and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include ageing and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, communication and control problems, responses to natural or human-caused disaster, divorce and separation, domestic violence, family conflict, forgiveness, guilt and shame, infidelity, intellectual disability, isolation and loneliness, jealousy and life purpose.

Rona draws on a variety of therapeutic approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), tailoring interventions to each person. She works from a strengths-based stance, recognising that clients are experts in their own stories and that existing strengths can support change. Rona acknowledges the courage involved in starting therapy and offers encouraging, compassionate support to those who take that first step.