Thoughtful Strides · Narre Warren & Telehealth Australia-wide
You don't have to keep carrying this alone
Whatever has brought you here, whether it's anxiety that won't settle, a relationship under strain, grief that hasn't found its footing, or something from your past still shaping your present, there is a way through it. Evidence-based, trauma-informed counselling with a PACFA registered therapist.
Nigel JosephTrauma Therapist & Counsellor · 20 Years Experience
My name is Nigel Joseph. I'm a Trauma Therapist, Counsellor and Psychotherapist with 20 years of clinical experience, and I work with people and couples across a wide range of struggles, some loud and disruptive, others quiet and easy to carry alone for years. Whatever brings you here, anxiety, depression, anger, grief, relationship patterns, or a workplace injury, the same trauma-informed approach sits underneath the work, understanding what's driving it, not just managing the symptom on the surface. Below are the areas I see most often. If yours isn't listed, reach out anyway. It's likely I can still help.
Areas of Practice
Wherever you're starting from, there's a path through it
Feel Safe Again
Trauma Therapy & EMDR
When the past keeps intruding on the present, whether through flashbacks, hypervigilance, or a nervous system stuck on high alert, EMDR helps the brain finally file traumatic memories away as the past, not an ongoing threat.
Learn about Trauma & EMDRFreedom From Fear & Worry
Anxiety Counselling
Racing thoughts, constant tension, a mind that won't switch off. Anxiety counselling helps you understand what's driving it and build a calmer, steadier relationship with your own mind.
Learn about Anxiety CounsellingReconnect With Life
Depression Counselling
When everything feels flat, heavy, or like you're just going through the motions, trauma-informed therapy helps you understand what's underneath it and gradually find your way back to energy, motivation, and meaning.
Learn about Depression CounsellingProtect What Matters
Anger Management
Outbursts and reactivity often cost people the relationships and respect they value most. Drawing on the same trauma-informed approach used across this site, this work helps you understand your triggers and respond with control instead of regret.
Learn about Anger ManagementCarry Loss Without Being Consumed By It
Grief & Loss Counselling
Grief doesn't follow a neat timeline, and it can be complicated further by trauma, a sudden death, or unresolved circumstances. Support here makes space for grief to move, rather than stay stuck.
Learn about Grief & Loss CounsellingFeel Close to the People You Love
Relationship Counselling
For individuals working through relationship patterns, past or present, that keep leaving them feeling unheard, unseen, or stuck in the same painful cycles.
Learn about Relationship CounsellingSupport for Whatever Life Brings
General Counselling
Not everything fits neatly into a category. If life simply feels heavier than it should right now, the same trauma-informed, person-centred approach applies here too, in a space to work through it with someone trained to help.
Learn about General CounsellingSteady Ground to Recover On
WorkSafe Counselling
As a registered WorkSafe Victoria provider, I support people recovering from workplace injury or psychological injury claims with structured, evidence-based care.
Learn about WorkSafe Counselling
Find Your Way Back to Each Other
Couples Counselling & Relationship Therapy
Most relationships begin deeply connected, then life happens. Drawing on the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) alongside Schema Therapy, couples counselling helps you understand what's really happening beneath the conflict and rebuild trust, communication, and closeness.
Learn about Couples CounsellingHow I Work
Evidence-based, tailored to you
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to healing. Drawing on EMDR, Schema Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Gottman Method and EFCT-based couples work, I tailor therapy to your specific history and goals, working toward change that's genuinely lasting, not just better coping.
"Trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body." Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score (2014)