Shoko Kasanami

Shoko Kasanami is an AASW practitioner in Australia with four years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, low self-esteem, depression and major life changes. Shoko also focuses on body image, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, mood concerns, self-love, social anxiety and questions about life purpose.

She trained with a Master of Social Work after moving from Canada. Her previous role with a government child protection department gave her direct experience with complex situations. She now works with an organisation involved in offender rehabilitation and brings those practical insights to everyday sessions.

Shoko uses practical, conversational methods in session. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking, reframe stories about themselves and set small, practical goals. Sessions are presented in straightforward language without technical jargon.

People can expect a therapist who listens and uses both personal experience and professional skills. She speaks English and Japanese, and often supports people dealing with the fallout from big life changes or ongoing mood and anxiety concerns. Shoko encourages clear next steps and small experiments between meetings.

If someone is unsure how to begin, she suggests a short initial conversation to outline immediate concerns and set simple goals. That first meeting is used to agree on what to try next and what approach feels most useful.

Approach and how online sessions usually work

Shoko commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Narrative Therapy alongside Solution-Focused Therapy. CBT helps people notice and test unhelpful thoughts and behaviours with clear steps and experiments. Narrative Therapy helps people reframe the stories they tell themselves so different actions become possible. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasises small, practical goals and changes that can be tried between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with the client about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as they see which tools produce useful change.

The exact online session formats are not listed here, so please confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or remove travel time so people can use lunch breaks or brief windows in their day. If having sessions in a particular way matters, state that when you complete the matching questionnaire so the session setup can be discussed ahead of time.