About Josephine
Josephine Sultana is an AASW social worker with 15 years' experience supporting people facing anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, grief and relationship concerns. She also works with sleep problems, parenting strains, addiction-related issues, self-esteem and career stress. Josephine aims to help people feel heard and to build practical skills they can use day to day.
Her style is warm, collaborative and straightforward. Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Josephine draws on a mix of psychological approaches to match each person's needs and preferences rather than a one-size-fits-all program. She trained in counselling and social work and has worked across public and personal mental health settings. Since 2016 she has also practised privately, supporting adults and older adults through major life changes and health-related challenges.
Her background includes work with trauma, stress and women’s emotional health. Josephine integrates mind and body perspectives into her work. She has training as an integrative health practitioner and uses evidence-informed lifestyle strategies alongside talking therapy when these are relevant.
This can include attention to sleep, nutrition and stress-management habits that affect mood and energy. People who come to Josephine can expect a practical focus - understanding thoughts and feelings, building coping tools, and setting small steps that add up to change. She helps people consider values and choices, and supports them to try new ways of handling tough situations.
Blending therapeutic approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then take actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, avoidance and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical techniques to change patterns that maintain distress. It is often used for anxiety, phobias and sleep problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on understanding and processing emotions to improve emotional regulation and deepen self-awareness, which can help with grief, trauma and relationship concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then tailor techniques from different approaches to fit the person. That collaborative process means the plan can change as new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and seeing non-verbal cues, phone sessions suit people with lower bandwidth or who prefer voice only, and messaging or chat can be used for shorter check-ins or between-session support. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, childcare and other commitments while accessing appropriately qualified therapists from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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