Overview

Action Potential Counselling Supporting clarity, resilience, and meaningful change — one step at a time. Action Potential Counselling provides person-centered, strengths-based, and trauma-informed counselling to support people navigating life’s challenges with greater clarity, resilience, and purpose. Sessions focus on practical tools, self-understanding, and sustainable change, guided by values of integrity, respect, compassion, and wisdom. About Joshua Birleson Joshua Birleson is a counsellor with experience across mental health, youth support, and disability services. His approach is warm, direct, and collaborative, grounded in a humanistic perspective and guided by each client’s needs, values, and goals. Sessions & Flexibility Sessions are offered with flexibility and care, with options to suit individual needs. Session lengths can be adjusted where helpful, and changes are always discussed collaboratively. Services Provided - Anxiety & stress support - Depression & low mood - Self-esteem, confidence & identity - Life transitions & feeling stuck - Relationship & couples counselling - Coping skills & emotional regulation - Values, purpose & direction - Men’s mental health & wellbeing

Qualifications and Experience

Education

  • Diploma of Counselling (CHC51015)
  • Diploma of Community Services (CHC52025)
  • Cert III and IV in physical fitness

Accreditations

  • Certified Practicing Counselors Australia (CPCA)
  • Mental Health Professionals Network (MHPN)

Certifications

  • Therapeutic Crisis Intervention

Fees/Services

  • Online CounsellingA$90.00

Specialisation and Services

Area of Focus

  • Adolescents
  • Anger Management
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety and phobias
  • Burnout
  • Child Psychotherapy
  • Couples Therapy
  • Depression
  • General Counselling
  • Life Coaching
  • Life Transition and Adjustment Issues
  • Men's Issues
  • Mental health
  • Mental Illness
  • Obesity
  • Personal Development
  • Psychotherapy
  • Relationships
  • Relaxation training
  • School Issues
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Harm
  • Teenagers
  • Work Related Issues

Modalities

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Humanistic
  • Integrative
  • Mindfulness
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Psychoeducation
  • Psychotherapy
  • Solution-Focused Therapy

Patient Focus

  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Adults
  • Families
  • Men
  • People with disabilities
  • Couples
  • Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
  • LGBTIQ

Languages Spoken

  • English

Services

  • Group Sessions
  • Home Visits
  • Online consultations