Jo Herbig, AASW

Jo Herbig is an Australian mental health therapist with 22 years of professional experience helping people move through stress, anxiety, relationship and family conflict, grief and other life challenges. She is accredited as AASW - a professional association for social workers in Australia - and draws on a breadth of clinical methods to support practical, evidence-based change.

Her practice blends psychotherapy with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and other evidence-based techniques to address emotional patterns, unhelpful thinking, and coping strategies. Jo also works with separation and family matters in her role as a Nationally Accredited Mediator and contributes to a National Steering Committee focused on Child Inclusive Practice to support children through family separation.

She approaches each person with sensitivity, respect and compassion, tailoring conversations and treatment plans to meet individual needs and circumstances. Jo works with people facing abandonment and attachment issues, caregiver stress, communication and control problems, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, questions of life purpose, and gender-specific concerns including men’s and women’s issues. Her practice also covers workplace-related stress, anger, forgiveness work and building self-love.

Jo aims to help people find clearer direction and greater wellbeing by working collaboratively and practically, supporting each step from the first expression of courage through to ongoing change.

Evidence-based approaches and the benefits of online therapy

Jo Herbig uses psychotherapy to explore personal history, patterns of thinking and emotional responses, helping clients understand how past experiences influence current behaviour and relationships. This approach is useful for people working through grief, attachment concerns, relationship conflict and life-purpose questions.

She also applies cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), a practical method that helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and develop alternative ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety, manage stress and improve mood. CBT is often used alongside other techniques to build coping skills and problem solving.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Jo Herbig works collaboratively with clients to choose or adapt techniques based on their needs, goals and preferences, and seeks to tailor sessions so the work feels relevant and achievable.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging offers flexibility for people balancing work, family or caregiving responsibilities. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care, access appropriately qualified or registered professionals from different locations and fit therapy into a busy life while still engaging in meaningful, outcomes-focused work with a therapist.