
Joseph Fonti is passionate about life, people, and the complex relationships we all share with one another. He embodies warmth, compassion and sensitivity, and has worked with adults, couples, groups and adolescents from all walks of life. He is a registered member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA), and an advocate for the profound transformation that counselling and psychotherapy offers those who are willing to ‘take a look inside’.
Joseph has been a practising artist most of his adult life, and worked as an Art Therapist since 2016. He draws upon this life long pursuit to engage with clients and their issues in creative and non-linear ways. He also takes inspiration from his current training in Foundational Studies of Relational Gestalt Psychotherapy to work in emergent, and sometimes, experimental, modalities. From time to time, he works in ways that utilise Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Solution Focused Therapy (SFT). Joseph is also a practising meditator. Fundamentally, Joseph implements a person-centred, therapist-led approach that aims to facilitate incremental change.
Joseph strives to see each person he works with for who they truly are. He endeavours to offer a service that is humble, astute, dynamic and practical. He understands that therapy can be an expensive, time consuming and even slightly unnerving undertaking, and has built a practice that acknowledges and is respectful towards these conditions.
Joseph is a father, a husband, a son, a brother, a friend, and a therapist. He draws upon extensive life experience, as well as formal training and academia in all of his sessions with clients.
Qualifications:
Foundational Studies in Gestalt Psychotherapy (2 years)
Diploma of Counselling
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) at RMIT
Bachelor of Commerce at Deakin University
Member of Australian Counselling Association (Member No. 29965)

The very thing which lead Olga to psychotherapy — a curiosity and intrigue of human beings and their stories, their lived experiences — is still very much at the forefront of her practice.
Olga is a kind, compassionate and curious therapist. She prioritises attuning to each individual’s place/moment along their journey of life; from here the sessions take shape. She centres her sessions around the particular needs, desires, curiosities, edges and goals of the individual.
Primarily trained in Gestalt Psychotherapy, Olga works from a dynamic relational lens, which supports an increase in one’s awareness and authentic expression. Increased awareness of one’s self can potentially support to expand one’s repertoire of behaviour because it can uncover some of the subconscious/hidden beliefs that we hold, which often silently influence the way we show up in life: the kinds of relationships we tend to have, our habits, thinking patterns, perspectives and habitual reactions. Olga is also a practicing art psychotherapist, a modality which she draws upon when needed. Moreover, Olga is informed by developmental trauma, attachment and humanistic theories.
Olga is interested in the whole of the person that is sitting in front of her. The whole of a person incudes all of their parts: the shiny parts, the scarred parts, the loud parts, the obnoxious parts, the charming parts, and the parts still sitting in the shadows, just to name a few. Olga welcomes them all. Within the therapeutic relationship, Olga positions herself as a fellow human being, another curious mind in the room, which draws upon both evidence-based practice, as well as her lived experience as an individual living in this complicated society.
Olga is also a practicing poet and writer, a practice which further expands her musings on life. Olga spent nearly half of her life living in various parts of the world, meeting and listening to stories of many many kinds and types of people. All these experiences are part of her story, which also inform the way she looks at the world.
Qualifications:
Foundational Studies in Gestalt Psychotherapy (3 years)
Masters of Art Therapy (Latrobe)
Master of Science Communication in Nonfiction Creative Writing (Otago University, New Zealand)
Diploma of Creative Writing (Melbourne University)
Bachelor of Animal Science (Melbourne University)
PACFA Reg. Certified Practising 31494
Member of ANZACATA (No. 55540620)