Justine Gibbs, BACP

Justine Gibbs is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with six years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, parenting pressures, career uncertainty and anger. Sessions focus on practical steps clients can use day to day to feel more in control.

She describes a broad background that includes work alongside health services, schools and employment services. That mix informs her way of noticing how practical problems and emotions link together. She draws on her own life roles as a parent and advocate to bring grounded examples into sessions.

Justine uses several well-known therapeutic approaches rather than a single method. She commonly blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioural ideas and attachment-informed thinking. Dialectical skills and a client-centred attitude are also part of the mix when they fit the clients needs.

In practice that means sessions may include checking immediate problems, learning specific skills for stress or anger, and exploring patterns in relationships that keep old difficulties alive. She talks through tools clients can use between sessions and adapts the plan as progress and life events change.

She says she prefers clear, practical work over long abstract discussion. Conversations tend to be relaxed and professional, with exercises and suggestions introduced when useful. If someone wants straightforward help with temper, resentment, workplace frustration or family conflict, she aims to focus on useful strategies they can try right away.

Therapeutic approaches and remote sessions