Justine Blakeman, BACP

Justine Blakeman is a BACP counsellor with six years of client-facing experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties and the fallout of separation. She also supports those affected by trauma and abuse and assists people who are trying to manage parenting challenges.

Justine believes people know their own story best and brings a respectful, down-to-earth style to sessions. She helps clients identify strengths they already have and use those strengths to move through hard moments. Conversations are practical and paced to what each person needs.

Her work includes supporting people with anger, addictions, grief and intimacy-related worries. She also assists those dealing with sleep and eating concerns, low self-esteem, career stress and mood conditions such as depression and bipolar. Additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, communication and control difficulties, and challenges around blended family life.

Justine’s approach draws on several evidence-informed methods. She uses client-centred listening alongside techniques from cognitive behavioural and dialectical behaviour approaches. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing tools are used when they suit a person’s goals. Sessions are collaborative and aim to help people make practical changes.

She works in the United Kingdom and offers services in English. People are invited to take a first step by using the platform Start Therapy process to be matched and schedule sessions.

How therapeutic approaches shape online counselling

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. It means the therapist follows your lead, reflects what you say and helps you make sense of your own choices. This approach can help when someone wants a space to be heard and to work out their priorities.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses simple techniques to test unhelpful thoughts and build new behaviours, which can help with anxiety, low mood and stress. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, using step-by-step exercises and focus on acceptance and change.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest methods that seem helpful. Decisions are made together so the plan fits the issues you want to address.

Confirm which online session formats are available before booking, as the biography does not list specific options. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people use tools such as thought records, guided mindfulness and skills practice between sessions to build progress into everyday life.