About Josephine
Josephine has extensive experience in mental health and helping clients improve with their capacity to cope with life challenges and improve quality of life. She has also helped staff at workplaces improve team work, resilience, communication skills and work out their life and career challenges and options. She works with adults, children, young people and families improve quality of life through best mental health and functioning.
Overall, services include developing programs, clinical supervision, running workshops, staff mentoring, counselling, and sharing her expert knowledge through consulting.
Josephine has extensive experience in mental health and helping clients improve with their capacity to cope with life challenges and improve quality of life. She has also helped staff at workplaces improve team work, resilience, communication skills and work out their life and career challenges and options. She works with adults, children, young people and families improve quality of life through best mental health and functioning.
Overall, services include developing programs, clinical supervision, running workshops, staff mentoring, counselling, and sharing her expert knowledge through consulting.
Summary of Previous and Current Professional History of Josephine
Josephine's credentials include a graduate Diploma of Psychology, Bachelor of Communications, a Certificate IV and Diploma in Training and Assessment and Diploma of Professional Counselling with advanced studies in Relationship Counselling and Conflict Management, Workplace Counselling and Career Counselling. She has completed training for behaviour management for young people with autism, understanding challenging behaviour, Family Focus Intervention, trauma focused cognitive behaviour therapy for children and adolescents, as well as PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System). Josephine has also completed a short course in Understanding dementia and preventing dementia. Josephine has successfully completed the Emotional Freedom Technique and Process Experiential Emotion-focused Therapy workshop and a Diploma in Professional, Writing and Editing. Josephine has a current Police and Working with Children check.
Continuous Professional Development
Josephine is an active member of the Australian Counselling Association Inc., (ACA), and the Mental Health Professionals Network. She engages in their community to keep updated, because she understands that the mental health industry and society is not static but always evolving.
- Audit an organisation's communication strategy and deliver a program to improve staff retention and team work skills
- Contract counsellor for Carer's Victoria and Family Relationship Support for Carers, where Josephine provides her skills, knowledge and support to manage the carer's stress, depression and relationship challenges that comes from being a carer. She also helps them understand the diagnosis of the person they are caring for.
- Telehealth counselling for Medibank Health Solutions (BeyondBlue and 1800Respect) to help people cope with life challenges and find appropriate ongoing support.
- Provides students with counselling to improve their capacity and motivation to learn as well as cope with life challenges.
- Josephine also helps adults, children and young people improve their interpersonal behaviour, improve mental health such as depression, manage anxiety and stress, manage ADHD symptoms and autism, improve assertive skills, anger management, and how to make and keep friends.
- Workplace workshops to improve resilience, social skills, conflict management, communication skills and mental health
- Assisted in the Drinkwise Australia campaign "Kids Absorb Your Drinking" and the “Go For Your Life” campaign which was a Victorian government initiative.
Josephine's credentials include a graduate Diploma of Psychology, Bachelor of Communications, a Certificate IV and Diploma in Training and Assessment and Diploma of Professional Counselling with advanced studies in Relationship Counselling and Conflict Management, Workplace Counselling and Career Counselling. She has completed training for behaviour management for young people with autism, understanding challenging behaviour, Family Focus Intervention, trauma focused cognitive behaviour therapy for children and adolescents, as well as PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System). Josephine has also completed a short course in Understanding dementia and preventing dementia. Josephine has successfully completed the Emotional Freedom Technique and Process Experiential Emotion-focused Therapy workshop and a Diploma in Professional, Writing and Editing. Josephine has a current Police and Working with Children check.
Continuous Professional Development
Josephine is an active member of the Australian Counselling Association Inc., (ACA), and the Mental Health Professionals Network. She engages in their community to keep updated, because she understands that the mental health industry and society is not static but always evolving.