Justine Howard, BACP

Justine Howard is a BACP counsellor with 28 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, low self-esteem and life changes. She offers a calm, practical presence and focuses on everyday thoughts and habits that shape how people feel. Her approach aims to make small, manageable changes that fit into daily life.

Justine works in an integrative way, blending person-centred counselling with cognitive behavioural techniques. That means she creates a respectful, non-judgemental space to talk, and also uses straightforward tools to notice and change unhelpful thinking and routines. Sessions usually mix listening with practical exercises you can try between meetings.

She has long experience supporting people dealing with attachment and abandonment worries, adoption and foster care issues, aging and caregiver strain, chronic illness and pain, body image and eating concerns, and communication or control difficulties. Her practice also covers autism and Asperger syndrome related challenges and personality concerns like avoidant patterns.

Justine describes therapy as a partnership. She helps people identify clear goals and practical steps to reach them. Work often includes simple thought records, behavioural experiments and building better daily habits to reduce anxiety and improve mood.

Many clients find the mix of empathic listening and task-focused work useful when coping with change, difficult memories or ongoing stress. To begin, follow the Start Therapy process on the site and schedule according to availability.

Approaches that change thoughts and daily habits

Justine blends person-centred counselling and cognitive behavioural techniques in ways that are easy to understand. Person-centred counselling focuses on being listened to without judgement and on building the client’s own insight and strengths. It helps people feel heard and more able to make choices about next steps. Cognitive behavioural techniques look at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and use simple exercises to alter unhelpful patterns; these methods are often useful for anxiety, low mood and changing daily habits.

Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist and client work together to identify goals and try methods that feel manageable. If something does not fit, they adapt the plan and try different practical tools until a better fit is found.

The biography does not list the specific online session formats offered, so please confirm current options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy around daily life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people use written exercises and screen-based resources between sessions to support changing thoughts and routines.