About Justin
Justin Dowdall is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with 11 years' experience. He works with people facing stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. He also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and family concerns, and challenges such as depression, bipolar symptoms and career stress.
Justin keeps sessions practical and client-focused. He asks about your goals and tailors each meeting to your needs. He uses plain explanations to help you notice unhelpful thought patterns and try different ways of coping.
Background and approach
His approach blends cognitive behavioural ideas with emotionally focused work and mindfulness. That means looking at thoughts that fuel worry, noticing how emotions are held in the body, and practicing simple present-moment skills to reduce overwhelm. He also uses brief, solution-focused techniques to identify next steps between sessions.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to suit you. Justin aims to build trust and respect while helping people develop clearer communication and stronger emotional awareness. He supports practical change rather than offering quick fixes.
Over his career Justin has worked in independent practice and community settings. He holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, which appears as BACP. He offers sessions in English and accepts international clients.
If you prefer, he can work by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
Approaches and online therapy options
Justin uses a mix of cognitive behavioural therapy and emotionally focused therapy in his online work. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and helps people test and change unhelpful thinking that fuels anxiety or low mood. Emotionally focused therapy concentrates on how emotions are experienced and expressed, aiming to improve emotional clarity and closer, more honest communication in relationships.He treats finding the right approach as a shared process. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then try methods that suit your situation. Sessions can adapt over time so the approach matches how you progress and what you need next.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel, and to pick the format that best suits day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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