Justine Howard
Experienced counsellor for stress and trauma
About Justine
Justine Howard is a counsellor with 28 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, eating difficulties, low self-esteem and major life changes. She offers a calm, respectful space where people can talk through painful experiences and work out practical steps forward.
Her approach aims to meet each person where they are and move at a pace that feels right for them. Justine draws on an integrative way of working, mixing person-centred ideas with cognitive behavioural techniques to suit individual needs.
Background and approach
That means sessions can involve open conversation, emotional reflection, or more structured strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and habits. She adapts the balance according to the issue and the person’s preferences.
She has wide experience across many concerns including attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care matters, body image and eating problems, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and communication or control difficulties. Justine also supports people dealing with ageing-related worries, cancer, codependency and commitment issues.
People can expect a sensitive, non-judgemental way of working that focuses on practical progress as well as emotional understanding. Sessions are collaborative and aim to help people build coping skills they can use between meetings. Justine is registered with the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
She works from the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English, including to international clients.
What Justine works with
Sessions & fees
Practical therapeutic approaches for online support
Justine uses person-centred methods and cognitive behavioural techniques to guide her online work. Person-centred counselling focuses on listening without judgement and helping people find their own answers; it is useful for building self-understanding and emotional acceptance. Cognitive behavioural techniques involve identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying practical exercises to change them, which can help with anxiety, stress and mood problems.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively with each person to decide which methods suit their goals, needs and comfort level. That may mean spending more time on emotional reflection at first, then introducing practical exercises when the timing feels right.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical advantages. Video calls are close to face-to-face sessions and work well for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging suits short check-ins, immediate coping ideas or people who express themselves better in writing. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- 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 counselling
- 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
- Experience
- 28 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
