Background & Approach

 

Josh has experience supporting young people across a range of mental health and neurodevelopmental presentations. He takes a comprehensive, collaborative and neuro-affirming approach to assessment, considering an individual's developmental history, current presentation and broader psychological context.

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A particular area of interest is differential diagnosis, including understanding the overlap between neurodevelopmental, mental health and trauma-related presentations. While ADHD and Autism assessments are a particular focus of his practice, Josh considers the broader clinical picture and is mindful of how symptoms may present across, and overlap between, different mental health, trauma-related and neurodevelopmental conditions.

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Josh's clinical interests include young people's mental health, complex trauma and neurodevelopmental presentations, with a particular interest in borderline personality disorder (BPD) in adolescents. He is also mindful of the ways masking and camouflaging can influence presentation and assessment, including in women and girls.

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Josh has training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Schema Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR).

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His aim is to provide thorough, thoughtful assessments that offer clarity, meaningful insight and a sense of validation, while recognising the complexity and individuality of each person's presentation.

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