Josh Arminio, ACA

Josh Arminio has worked in the mental health sector for over six years, bringing a blend of clinical training and hands-on experience to his counselling practice. He began his early career as a sexual assault victim advocate before completing a master’s degree in counselling at Monash University in Melbourne in 2020, and during that time he completed internships at a high school and an employee assistance program agency.

Following his master’s, Josh added a graduate certificate in health and human services from the University of Melbourne and has worked across diverse settings including veteran services as a group therapy facilitator, community telehealth, academic advising, counselling within a carceral environment, and providing clinical supervision to counselling graduate students. He has also supported a wide range of populations, such as military veterans, sex workers, LGBTQIA+ people, educators, international students and immigrants, older adults, people experiencing homelessness, Indigenous Australians, and small business owners.

Josh holds the ACA credential, which indicates membership in a professional counselling association, and he earned a clinical certificate in group therapy and multicultural counselling from Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, USA. His therapeutic foundation is rooted in Rogerian person-centered strategies, and he has additional training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Schema Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). He also incorporates existential, ontological, and spiritually informed perspectives when they align with a client’s needs.

Social justice advocacy and cultural competency are central to Josh’s approach, and he emphasizes these values as integral to effective counselling. He works with issues such as stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue, alongside additional focuses including abandonment, control issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, men’s issues, narcissism, self-love, social anxiety and phobia, and workplace challenges.