About Justine
Justine Terzinski is a licensed clinical social worker from Wisconsin. She holds the LCSW credential and draws on six years of clinical therapy experience to help adults coping with anxiety, depression, eating concerns, low self-esteem, and life transitions. Her style is warm and encouraging.
She listens carefully and aims to help people feel heard and understood before suggesting changes. Sessions focus on building self-worth and practical steps clients can use day to day.
How Justine works
Justine uses straightforward methods to address common struggles. She blends client-centered work with tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness to reduce stress and rethink unhelpful patterns. Motivational interviewing helps when people want to change habits or manage addictive behaviors.
She also addresses relationship and communication problems, family-of-origin issues, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment challenges, and body image worries. Other focus areas include fertility-related stress, divorce and separation, codependency, and forgiveness work. In sessions she helps people set realistic goals and practice new ways of coping.
Conversations often include short exercises, thought pattern checks, and mindfulness breathing. The aim is steady progress so daily life feels more manageable. People who prefer a collaborative, strengths-based approach may find her way of working helpful.
She encourages practical self-care, clearer communication, and small changes that add up over time.
Justine lists 9 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
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Justine often blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral approaches and emotion-focused ideas. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people discover their own solutions; it works well for building self-esteem and feeling understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, involves noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy targets patterns in close relationships and helps people understand and shift emotional responses that affect communication and connection.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Justine talks with each client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjusts methods over time. Clients often try a mix of strategies before settling on what works best for them.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video offers face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or messaging support shorter check-ins and ongoing practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to maintain regular contact with licensed professionals.
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