Justine Blakeman, BACP

Justine Blakeman is a BACP registered counsellor with six years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain and issues arising from trauma and abuse. She also supports clients dealing with parenting challenges and separation.

Justine approaches therapy from a client-centred perspective, which means she treats the person as the expert in their own life. She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioural therapy to help change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns. Dialectical behaviour therapy skills and mindfulness practices are also available to help manage strong emotions and build coping skills.

Her background includes work with clients affected by domestic abuse and with people navigating the family court and criminal justice processes in the UK. That experience informs how she talks through safety planning and the practical realities of legal steps alongside emotional work.

Justine describes clients as having strengths they can draw on to face difficult situations. Sessions tend to focus on what is happening now, how patterns developed, and small actionable steps to change those patterns. She also uses motivational interviewing techniques when clients are weighing difficult choices or trying to sustain change.

People who come to her often want help with boundaries, codependency patterns, grief, addiction-related concerns, or parenting stress. She offers straightforward, conversational sessions that aim to clarify priorities and build manageable strategies for coping and decision making.

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