About Justine
Justine Howard helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, low self‑esteem and life changes. She is a counsellor with 28 years of practice and offers calm, practical support for difficult moments. Her style is steady and straightforward, aimed at making the next steps feel possible.
Justine uses an integrative approach that brings together person-centred work and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, known as CBT. That mix means sessions can be a listening space or a chance to try coping tools.
How Justine works
She adapts her way of working to what each person finds most useful, balancing empathy with practical strategies. People come to her with a wide range of concerns beyond the main focus areas. These include issues such as attachment, adoption and foster care matters, body image and eating, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and communication or commitment difficulties.
She also supports those coping with cancer, ageing matters, autism and avoidant personality patterns. Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to the individual. Justine listens first, then helps identify small, manageable changes to try between meetings.
She offers straightforward explanations and concrete steps so progress feels tangible. Therapy can be a way to rebuild confidence, find clearer ways to cope, and lessen the hold of anxious thoughts. Justine welcomes international clients and conducts sessions in English.
To begin, people choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Person‑centred counselling focuses on providing a warm, accepting space where the person leads the pace and topic of conversation. It helps when someone needs to feel heard, understood and able to make their own choices about change.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It teaches practical techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and to build new coping habits, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood and some eating concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and try different methods to find what helps most. That means sessions can shift over time from talking and reflection to skill practice and homework if that suits you.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives or limited travel options. Video calls let you see facial cues and body language, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on a noisy day, live chat works for shorter check‑ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family commitments or periods of rest, while keeping continuity across appointments.
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A practical next step
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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