About Josef
Josef Wopenka is an AHPRA-registered psychologist with five years of clinical experience. He focuses on practical steps people can use when stress, anxiety or depression feel overwhelming. Josef speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel manageable and focused from the first meeting.
He helps people work through addictions, anger and relationship concerns in a straightforward way. He also supports those dealing with trauma, sleep problems, low self-esteem and career-related strain.
How Josef works
Josef works with mood differences such as bipolar disorder and offers help when life changes feel hard to navigate. His approach draws on several evidence-based methods so sessions centre on clear tools and small goals. Josef and the client decide together which techniques to try and how to pace progress.
Motivational strategies are used when people want to build momentum and stay on track. When trauma is part of the story, Josef uses structured processing to reduce distress and build coping skills. Skills-based work from dialectical and cognitive approaches is used to manage intense emotions and unhelpful thoughts.
Acceptance-focused strategies support people who want to live by their values despite difficult feelings. People meet Josef by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. He works in English and practises in Australia.
New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and booking a first session using the Start Therapy button.
Josef lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Josef works with
The areas below are the ones Josef selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | AHPRA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Approaches that suit online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps that match those values while learning to sit with difficult feelings. It helps when worry or avoidance gets in the way of living the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems down into thoughts, actions and feelings and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful habits and reduce distress. It is often used for anxiety, depression and sleep difficulties. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a structured way to process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional intensity when trauma keeps showing up in daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Josef will explore goals, preferences and your day-to-day needs and then suggest methods to try. He collaborates with each person to adjust pace and technique so work feels useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer, in-depth sessions and visual interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer writing or want frequent brief contact between appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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