Counsellor profile
Justine Gibbs, BACP
BACP counsellor - relationships and family support
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- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- CBT and DBT tools
About Justine
Justine Gibbs is a BACP-registered counsellor in the United Kingdom with six years' experience. She works with adults facing relationship and family stresses, parenting pressures, low self-esteem, career uncertainty and common mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression and grief.
She draws on a mixture of practical therapies to help people manage everyday strain. Sessions focus on clear tools and steady steps rather than theory alone. She aims to help people build confidence, resolve communication problems and find ways to cope with big life changes.
Her background includes work across health, education, employability and disability services. That experience informs how she designs sessions and suggests strategies that fit real life. She also speaks from personal experience as a parent and family member, which she says influences her practical instincts.
Justine prefers a flexible approach rather than one fixed method. She mixes approaches such as acceptance and commitment strategies, attachment-based thinking, cognitive techniques and client-centred listening to match each person's situation. Sessions may include exercises to practise between meetings and suggestions for managing stress at home.
People looking for help with adoption and foster care issues, attachment difficulties, blended family matters, caregiving strain, chronic illness, body image or commitment and control issues may find her relevant. She also lists support for compassion fatigue, anger and coping after disaster.
To begin, readers are asked to use the website's online process to answer a short matching questionnaire and book an initial session. The subscription used for sessions can be cancelled at any time.
How sessions work
How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on values-based action. It can help when parenting, relationship strain or life changes make decisions feel overwhelming.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early experiences affect current interactions. This can be useful for those dealing with attachment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, or blended family dynamics.
Justine treats finding the right approach as a collaborative step. She will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then try methods that suit their situation. Together they adjust techniques if something does not fit or needs changing.
For practical online arrangements, confirm the exact session formats before booking since the biography does not list them. Online work can make it simpler to fit sessions into busy days, require less travel and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it easier to continue therapy during periods of change, and therapists can suggest at-home exercises and tools to practise between meetings.
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Experience
6+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
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What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with adults around relationships, family stress, parenting pressures, self-esteem, career worries, anxiety, depression, grief and related concerns such as caregiver strain and chronic illness.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style mixes practical therapy methods and client-centred listening. She uses exercises, real-life strategies and in-session discussion to build skills over time.
How much experience does she have?
She has six years of professional experience working across health, education, employability and disability settings.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practices in the United Kingdom.
Can she work with non-English speakers or international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.
Which session formats does she offer?
Confirm current session options before booking as no specific formats are listed in the biography.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location; sessions are provided via a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What should I do to start a first session?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.