Hi, I’m Josh.
I’m a psychotherapist based in Melbourne, working with adults experiencing anxiety, emotional reactivity, and relationship patterns that feel difficult to shift.
Before training as a therapist, I worked for over seven years as a business analyst. I’m familiar with the pressure of professional life - the experience of appearing capable on the outside while struggling internally, and the effort it can take to keep everything together.
Earlier in my own life, I experienced significant anxiety, particularly during my teenage years.
Meditation and self-help approaches were helpful to a point, but I experienced deeper change through working with a Somatic Experiencing therapist, and later with a psychologist trained in Deep Brain Reorienting. Those experiences shaped how I think about therapy and what leads to meaningful change.
Being a client shaped how I understand the therapeutic relationship. I experienced first-hand how feeling understood, and not having to face things on your own, can support deeper and more lasting change.
In my practice, the therapeutic relationship is central to our work. It’s important that you feel able to share and stay with difficult emotions without immediately shutting them down or feeling ashamed of them.
I approach our sessions with respect, humility, and curiosity, not assuming I already understand your experience, but taking the time to understand it with you.
When this kind of space develops, it can allow for something different to happen; difficult experiences can be approached rather than avoided, and over time, patterns can begin to shift.
Outside of therapy, I value time in nature, surfing, and spending time with people close to me.
If you’d like to learn more about how I understand change and what therapy with me may involve, you can read more about my approach below.
My Approach
I work with adults who feel persistently on edge, caught in repeating relationship patterns, or frustrated by reactions that do not change despite insight or effort.
This can show up as persistent anxiety or depression, tension in close relationships, emotions that feel intense and hard to contain, or a sense of numbness and disconnection. Sometimes life looks stable from the outside, yet internally there is ongoing agitation, shutdown, or a deep sense of being stuck.
Some people come to therapy with a clear sense of why they struggle. Others feel confused about their reactions and cannot easily trace them back to anything specific. In both cases, insight alone does not always lead to deeper or lasting change.
How I Understand These Difficulties
The patterns that bring people to therapy are shaped through experience, often in close relationships, and sometimes through significant stress or trauma at different points in life.
Our nervous systems learn what to expect from others and from the world. They adapt in response to what we have lived through, whether that involves early family dynamics, later relationship experiences, sudden losses, chronic stress, or events that felt overwhelming.
Over time, the body and mind organise around staying safe. These responses can become deeply familiar, continuing to influence how you respond even when circumstances have changed.
For this reason, effort or insight alone is not usually enough to shift them. Change develops through repeated experiences of steadiness and attunement within a consistent therapeutic relationship.
How Change Happens
In our work together, we pay attention to what happens in the moment. Not only to thoughts, but to emotional shifts, bodily responses, and what unfolds between us in the room.
We slow things down enough to notice what is happening, rather than pushing past it. Over time, reactions that once felt immediate or overwhelming can begin to soften. Situations that once triggered shutdown or anxiety can feel more manageable.
The aim is not simply to cope better, but to respond with greater flexibility and awareness, rather than being pulled automatically into old patterns.
The Way I Work
My approach is relational, attachment-informed, and trauma-aware. I draw on somatic psychotherapy to support nervous system regulation and integration.
Patterns can be explored without judgment, and change unfolds gradually in ways that feel grounded and sustainable. The focus is not quick fixes, but change that lasts.
Qualifications &
Experience
PACFA Certified Practising Member (#33218)
Master of Counselling (Deakin University)
Somatic Experiencing (in training)