Justine Gibbs
Practical support for stress and relationships
About Justine
Justine Gibbs offers a calm, practical way to work through stress, anxiety and relationship strain. She speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel manageable for a worried parent reading on a phone. Her approach focuses on helping people take small steps that add up to real change.
She holds BACP accreditation from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and has six years of experience in therapeutic settings. Her background includes work linked with the NHS, teaching, employability and disability support, which informs a broad view of clients' day-to-day pressures.
Background and approach
Justine draws on professional knowledge and hands-on experience to shape her sessions. Sessions are collaborative and tailored. Justine mixes methods such as cognitive behavioural ideas, acceptance and commitment strategies, attachment-based thinking, dialectical skills and a client-centred stance to match what each person needs.
She prefers to adapt tools rather than use a single method for everyone. Common concerns she addresses include relationship and family difficulties, parenting strain, self-esteem, career pressures, grief, anger and compassion fatigue. She also works with issues such as adoption and foster care, attachment questions, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
The focus is on practical coping, clearer communication and regaining a sense of agency. People can expect a relaxed but professional atmosphere. Justine aims to help people plan realistic steps between sessions, practice skills, and notice small shifts that build into bigger change.
What Justine works with
How Justine works
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Sessions & fees
How Justine’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while taking steps towards a meaningful life. It suits people navigating big life changes, anxiety or low mood by encouraging values-based actions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current patterns and helps people shift unhelpful relationship responses through new ways of relating. Client-Centred Therapy puts the person’s experience at the heart of each session, offering listening, reflection and practical support so the client leads what to explore.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Justine will talk through options with each person and tailor methods to their goals and preferences. The process is collaborative - together they decide which ideas to try and which to set aside, and plans are adjusted over time based on what helps.
Online sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, giving practical flexibility. Video calls let people read expressions and have a fuller conversation, phone sessions can fit into a short break or use less bandwidth, and messaging can suit brief check-ins or those who prefer typing. This range makes it easier to fit therapy into busy family and work lives while keeping the focus on steady progress.
| 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
- 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 counselling
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
