Josephine Sultana

Josephine Sultana is an AASW social worker with 15 years' experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger and relationship concerns. She works with adults and parents to untangle emotional reactions, manage difficult feelings and build realistic coping skills. Her style is warm, down-to-earth and collaborative, with care paced to each person’s needs.

Josephine combines talking therapies with a whole-person view of wellbeing. She draws on cognitive behavioural methods to address thinking patterns that fuel distress. She also uses Emotion-Focused Therapy to help people name and work with strong feelings when words alone aren’t enough.

Her background spans public and private mental health services and private practice since 2016. She also trains in integrative health and brings that perspective when relevant, looking at lifestyle, nutrition and biological factors alongside emotional work. This can help when mood, energy or sleep problems have physical contributors.

Sessions are collaborative. Josephine helps people set clear goals, try practical strategies between sessions, and adjust plans as things change. She encourages skills people can keep using long after therapy ends.

People often come for help with parenting stress, burnout and compassion fatigue, trauma and abuse, intimacy and self-esteem, or addictive behaviours. She also supports those navigating life transitions, career pressures and body image concerns.

How Josephine blends therapy approaches online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and it supports choosing actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, low mood and life changes. Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) aims to deepen awareness of core feelings and to work through painful emotional patterns, which can be useful for grief, trauma and relationship distress. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at thinking patterns and behaviours that keep problems going and offers practical, step-by-step strategies to change them.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. This is a collaborative process, and approaches can be adjusted as progress is made.

Confirm the current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also be helpful when someone prefers not to be on camera or needs a quieter setting or simpler technology. The therapist will discuss what will work best for scheduling and practical needs during the initial steps.