Justine Blakeman
Therapist focusing on practical emotional support
About Justine
Justine Blakeman is a BACP counsellor with six years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship strain and trauma. She works with clients on parenting challenges, domestic abuse matters, addiction and grief. She helps with mood difficulties such as depression and bipolar, and with practical concerns like sleep, eating and career strain.
Justine believes people bring strengths that help them get through hard times. She approaches sessions as a conversation where the client’s experience leads the way.
Background and approach
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people make small changes that feel manageable. Her work draws on a range of approaches. Client-Centred Therapy keeps the person’s needs central.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at how thoughts and actions link to feelings. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy add skills for emotion regulation and staying present. Motivational Interviewing supports change when someone feels stuck.
Clients often come with relationship problems, communication difficulties, attachment and abandonment concerns, or the strain of blended family life. Justine also addresses compassion fatigue, first responder issues, and challenges related to ADHD and intimacy. Sessions aim to be practical and paced to the client.
Conversations might include learning coping skills, trying new ways to communicate, or working through past hurts. Justine also offers coaching-style support for goal-setting and life transitions.
What Justine works with
How Justine works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Justine commonly uses Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy in her online work. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s lead to build trust and clarify goals. It helps when someone needs a calm space to talk things through.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers simple exercises to try between sessions. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating concerns. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy adds practical emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills for intense feelings and relationship stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose or blend methods based on what the client wants to achieve. This may change over time as goals shift or progress is made.
Online therapy is delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, which gives flexibility around work, childcare and daily routines. Video allows face-to-face conversation; phone can be useful when lower bandwidth is needed; live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while working with registered or accredited professionals and experienced therapists.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
