Josephine Hudson
Ms Josephine Hudson
Phone
0448823114
Mobile
0448823114
Email
[email protected]
Website
www.capstonecentre.com.au

Professional Profile

Qualification(s)
BA (Soc Sc); M.Hlth Couns; Cert. Global Mental Health (Trauma and Recovery);
Registration Number
20876
Registration category
Clinical
Additional PACFA credentials

College of Counselling


Mental Health Practitioner
Accredited Supervisor
Accredited PACFA Registrant
Offers telehealth
No

* Certified Practicing PACFA members have studied at AQF Level 7 (Bachelor degree) or above, with a minimum of 400 hours instruction in counselling or psychotherapy subjects, plus have a minimum of 40 hours client contact, and 10 hours of supervision.

Clinical PACFA members have met the education standards above and have accrued a minimum of 750 client contact hours, including 75 hours of supervision.

About me

My practice
Josephine is an experienced counsellor and psychotherapist, clinical and management supervisor, manager, trainer and educator. She has over 35 years' experience in the health profession and qualifications and training in counselling, clinical supervision, sociology and anthropology, and nursing.
Josephine has worked in Western Australia and the United Kingdom in palliative care/hospice, the community setting, private practice and the university sector; she has extensive clinical experience working with trauma, loss and grief with both adults and children.
She has been a counsellor and psychotherapist for 25 years and combined working in the university sector and private practice for 20 years. Josephine has worked in the University sector for 20 years and was the Program Director of three university postgraduate programs, including a Master of Counselling program, training counselling clinicians, a Graduate Diploma in Counselling and a Graduate Diploma in Coaching for six years (2007 - 2012). Josephine continues to teach in the University sector, lecturing in two programs at two universities and guest lecturing at a third university.
She has extensive clinical experience working with both adults and children working with systems; trauma, loss, grief and bereavement; suicide postvention; separation; chronic illness; life-limiting illness; palliative care; anxiety and depression; stress management; clinical and management supervision.
She has been very active in the profession and has held a number of external portfolios and memberships including Past Chair of the Expert Reference Group for the Suicide Postvention Project (ARBOR) for the Ministerial Council for Suicide Prevention and the Dept of Health and Ageing in WA; and Past Chair of the Ethics Subcommittee of the Psychotherapists and Counsellors Association of WA.
Practice opening hours
Issues I can help with
Anxiety, Chronic pain or illness, Communication issues, Depression, Existential or spiritual issues, Grief and loss, Life threatening Illness, Life transitions, Low self-esteem, Mental health issues, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Social skills, Stress, Trauma recovery
Type of therapy offered
Brief therapy, Cognitive therapy, Emotion-Focussed Therapy, Existential psychotherapy, Integrative therapy, Motivational interviewing, Narrative therapy, Person-centred counselling, Psycho-education, Solution-focussed therapy

Practice addresses

Practice NamePractice AddressSuburbStatePostcode
Capstone Centre21a Kearns CrescentArdrossWA6153