About Justine
Justine Howard is a counsellor with 28 years of experience helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, low self-esteem and big life changes. She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where someone can talk things through at their own pace. Sessions are practical and grounded, aimed at making day-to-day life easier to manage.
She combines person-centred counselling with cognitive behavioural techniques so the work fits each person.
Background and approach
That can mean sitting with difficult feelings and building understanding, or learning small exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. The mix is chosen to match what the person needs rather than following a single method.
Justine has supported people with a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety, including body image and eating issues, attachment and abandonment difficulties, caring responsibilities, chronic illness and cancer-related stress. She also works with matters such as communication difficulties, codependency, commitment worries and control issues. Her style is straightforward and compassionate.
Conversations are respectful and aimed at helping someone make sense of their experience. Practical coping strategies are offered alongside time to reflect and build self-understanding. She practises in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English.
Justine welcomes international clients and adapts how she works to fit each person’s situation and goals.
Approaches used online and how they help
Justine draws on person-centred counselling and cognitive behavioural techniques when working online. Person-centred counselling focuses on listening without judgement and helping someone find their own answers; it is useful for building self-understanding and emotional resilience. Cognitive behavioural techniques look at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and use simple exercises to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Justine treats the choice as a collaboration and will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together she and the client decide whether to prioritise supportive reflection, practical skill-building, or a mix of both as sessions progress.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit support into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions or brief live chat suit quicker check-ins or times when being on camera is difficult. Text-based messaging can be used for ongoing reflection between appointments. These options give flexibility and make it simpler to keep up regular work on anxiety and other concerns.
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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 counseling
- 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
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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