Justine Blakeman, BACP

Justine Blakeman is a BACP member with six years of client therapeutic work experience in the United Kingdom. She supports adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship and marital separation issues, trauma and abuse, and parenting concerns including domestic abuse and navigating the UK criminal justice and family court process.

She works from the view that people know their own story and brings that perspective into sessions. Conversations focus on identifying strengths, clarifying priorities and taking small practical steps forward. Sessions are straightforward and aimed at making day-to-day life more manageable.

Her approach draws on client-centred ideas alongside practical tools from cognitive behavioural therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing also appear in her work where they fit the client’s goals. These methods are used to manage anxiety, regulate difficult emotions and address patterns that cause ongoing conflict.

Justine has experience helping people with grief, addiction-related concerns, parenting strain, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, and work-related stress such as compassion fatigue. She also supports those dealing with attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family issues and communication and control problems.

People who come to her can expect direct conversation about what is causing strain and clear options to try between sessions. The emphasis is on practical steps and learning ways to cope with changes, rather than long theoretical discussion.

How her approaches translate to online work