Justine Blakeman, BACP

Justine Blakeman is a BACP counsellor with six years of hands-on therapeutic experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with depression and bipolar challenges, and work through relationship and intimacy issues.

She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, grief and compassion fatigue. Parenting challenges are a frequent focus, including navigating family problems, blended family issues and fatherhood concerns.

Justine draws on client-centred ways of working to place the person and their story at the centre of sessions. She pairs that with practical techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy to help change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness and dialectical behaviour therapy skills are used to build emotional regulation and tolerance.

Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She aims to help people identify strengths, set manageable goals and try small changes that make daily life easier. Sessions are paced to suit each person’s needs and preferences.

Justine has supported people through major life transitions such as separation and divorce, and through issues linked to attachment, abandonment and codependency. She also offers help with eating and sleeping difficulties, anger and communication problems.

Sessions are offered in English and conducted online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. She works from the United Kingdom and is a BACP member, which appears as BACP in her credentials.

Online therapy using collaborative and skills-based approaches

Justine often blends client-centred work with cognitive behavioural therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy skills. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s priorities so they set the pace and agenda. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and teaches practical steps for changing unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behaviour therapy skills help with emotional regulation, distress tolerance and improving communication in heated moments.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. From that conversation she will suggest which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made, so the plan stays useful and relevant.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a quicker check-in, live chat suits people who prefer typing, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can choose what works best for their schedule and needs.