Hon Dr Joseph Randolph Bowers is a Senior Specialist Counsellor Psychotherapist with Lifestyle Medicine expertise. His qualifications include PhD Health Couns, D.D., Hon D.D., MEd Couns, GCHE, Dip Ericksonian Hypno, CPNLP, BA Distinction, HACA. Joseph received his PhD from the School of Health, UNE, and taught for twenty years in the university sector in Australia and Canada in health counselling, education, and indigenous studies. Dr Bowers is a co-founder of the Counselling profession in Australia, including the first disciplinary research journal with ACA. He is a member of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine. For the past decade Joseph works in community practice focusing in senior clinical specialist behaviour support. Dr Bowers' practice focuses in NDIS Registered funded services including Clinical Behaviour Specialist assessment and treatment planning. Under NDIS he offers Assessments for NDIS Planning, Mental Health and Disability Assessments and Diagnostic Testing. Dr Bowers NDIS work includes Counselling and Psychotherapy with Person Centred Narrative, Holistic CBT, and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy. His interests include Lifestyle Medicine assessments and treatment planning in light of disability and mental health concerns. Interests include helping families and single mothers with disabled children, Autism, Intellectual Disability, Ageing, Dementia, rare conditions, and complex cases of multiple diagnoses with Mental Health and Disability. His interests include the interface between development, identity, lifestyle, spirituality, and culture with a clinical focus on the holistic application of human ecology and motivational psychotherapy with person centred and solution focused outcomes.

PhD Health Couns, D.D., Hon D.D., MEd Couns, GCHE, Dip Ericksonian Hypno, CPNLP, BA Distinction, HACA