Joseph Fonti

Joseph Fonti
Peninsula Counselling &
Psychotherapy Consulting

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 (Current)

Diploma of Counselling

Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) at RMIT

Bachelor of Commerce at Deakin University

Member of Australian Counselling Association (Member No. 29965)