About Justine
Justine Gibbs offers practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain or big life changes. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps less daunting. Justine uses a mix of approaches to help people regain confidence and feel more in control of day-to-day life.
She has six years of experience and holds BACP accreditation, which reflects professional membership in the United Kingdom. Her background includes work connected to the NHS, education, employability and disability services, so she is familiar with a range of social and medical contexts.
How Justine works
In sessions she focuses on real problems such as parenting pressures, grief, low self-esteem, career decisions and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, ageing concerns, chronic illness and caregiving stress. Conversations are straightforward, with practical tools and small steps to try between meetings.
Justine combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client-centred ways of working alongside attachment-informed ideas and elements from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy when useful. She prefers to adapt methods rather than use a single technique, and builds flexible plans suited to each person’s needs. She describes her manner as relaxed and engaging while remaining professional.
Practical exercises, gentle challenge and checking progress are typical parts of the work. The intent is to help clients feel more able to cope and make choices that suit their life.
Justine lists 11 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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace 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 therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people focus on what matters to them and accept difficult feelings while making practical moves towards valued goals. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses simple exercises to test and change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, stress and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship experiences shape current difficulties and supports people to build healthier ways of relating and feeling supported.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then use a mix of methods to suit the situation. This is a collaborative process and plans are adjusted as progress is checked over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions suit people with lower bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or when written reflection feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, childcare and travel, while keeping regular contact with a registered professional.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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