Justine Poyser
Practical, supportive counselling for life changes
About Justine
Justine Poyser is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience. She draws on practice with charities and personal work to help people manage stress, anxiety and trauma. Justine uses straightforward conversation and practical steps to help people move forward.
She believes clients are the experts in their own lives and works alongside them to find what helps. Sessions often focus on building confidence, coping strategies for depression, and ways to manage relationship and family difficulties.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with grief, career setbacks, addiction concerns and sleeping or eating struggles. Her time volunteering with a historical sexual abuse charity and a women’s charity informed her work in independent practice. That experience helped her understand how trauma and abuse can affect day-to-day life and relationships.
She brings that background into session at a pace the person is comfortable with. Justine draws on Client-Centred Therapy to follow the person’s priorities and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT to try practical changes in thinking and behaviour. These approaches are used to reduce anxiety, improve mood and tackle unhelpful routines.
People typically work with her across a number of sessions, often starting with around eight weeks and adjusting as needed. Her style is supportive and non-judgemental, aiming to empower people to find solutions that fit their lives. She works from independent practice in Nottingham and continues to offer pro bono work for local charities.
What Justine works with
How Justine works
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Sessions & fees
How Justine’s approaches work online
Justine uses Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT in online sessions. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s lead, helping them name priorities and make decisions that feel right. CBT looks at patterns of thought and behaviour and introduces small, practical exercises to reduce anxiety and lift mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals and preferences and together they will decide which methods to try. That collaborative process lets techniques be adapted to what actually helps the individual.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow fuller conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be quicker to arrange, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible for people juggling work, family or other commitments.
| 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
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
