About Justine
Justine Blakeman is a BACP counsellor with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical, person-centred work to help people cope with stress and anxiety, relationship breakdown, trauma and parenting challenges. She speaks plainly and meets people where they are, aiming to make the first steps feel less daunting.
Her approach begins with listening. She treats each person as the expert in their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
How Justine works
Sessions are collaborative and paced to suit the individual rather than following a strict script. Justine draws on a mix of methods to suit different problems. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps with unhelpful thinking patterns and mood shifts.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy offers skills for intense emotions and relationship stress. Mindfulness techniques support grounding and present-moment calm. She also uses motivational interviewing when people are weighing change, and a client-centred stance to keep the work focused on personal values and goals.
This mix helps when dealing with addictions, grief, self-esteem or career stress. People come for help with a wide range of issues including eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, intimacy concerns, ADHD and compassion fatigue. She also provides support around attachment, blended family challenges, communication problems and domestic violence aftermath.
Justine works online with people in the United Kingdom. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. The aim is to make therapy fit around daily life while working towards clearer thinking and steadier coping.
Justine lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Justine works with
The areas below are the ones Justine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How practical approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and building on a person’s own strengths to shape goals and decisions; it helps when someone needs a supportive space to make sense of difficult events. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and offers concrete strategies to change unhelpful cycles, which is useful for anxiety, depression and stress.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about what feels most useful and try different techniques to see what fits best. This collaboration means plans can change as needs and goals become clearer.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is good for face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits faster check-ins and messaging lets someone reflect between meetings. These options help therapy fit around work, family and daily life while keeping sessions practical and focused.
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