About Josephine
Josephine Sultana helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, sleep problems, parenting pressures and other emotional concerns. She is Josephine Sultana, an AASW social worker with 15 years of experience working across public and personal mental health settings. Her style is warm and collaborative.
She aims to make sessions straightforward and practical so people can use what they learn day to day. Sessions focus on small, workable steps rather than long lists of techniques.
How Josephine works
Josephine draws on several approaches to suit each person’s needs. She uses emotion-focused work to help people understand and organise strong feelings. She also uses cognitive strategies to spot thinking patterns that keep problems going.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take steady action toward them. She combines psychological work with an integrative health perspective that considers physical health, nutrition and lifestyle where relevant. This means conversations may include practical strategies for sleep, energy and stress management alongside talk therapy.
Any functional assessments mentioned are used to explore whether physical factors might be influencing mood and concentration. People meet with Josephine by video call, phone, live chat or messaging. She works in independent practice and has supported adults, parents and older adults through grief, trauma, addictions, caregiver stress and life transitions.
Her approach aims to help people feel understood and build skills that last.
Josephine lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Josephine works with
The areas below are the ones Josephine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How Josephine’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small actionable steps toward those values while accepting uncomfortable feelings. It suits stress, anxiety and life-change challenges where moving forward matters more than eliminating every difficult thought.Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice, name and work with strong emotions so they stop driving unhelpful patterns. It can be useful for relationship strain, grief, trauma responses and issues around intimacy and attachment.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Josephine works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences. That may mean combining ACT, EFT and cognitive strategies over time, with regular check-ins about what’s helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video is well suited to in-depth sessions, while phone calls work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, homework discussions and keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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