Justine is a psychotherapist, ecotherapist and facilitator living in Somerset. She has an MA in Core Process Psychotherapy, having graduated from the Karuna Institute in 2013, and works in private practice from her garden cabin and local woodland.
Justine became interested in the transpersonal after reading Stan Grof aged 18. That interest was explored further during a 7-year period of living and travelling in Asia and discovering the Eastern Contemplative practices of India and Tibet. A period of Spiritual Emergency in her twenties led Justine towards a path that some 10 years later saw her training to become a psychotherapist. She now has a particular interest in supporting the safe integration of these experiences for others.
Justine is the co-founder of Conscious Collaboration and is an enthusiastic champion for the necessity of attending to regenerative culture within social-action organisations. She has worked with Extinction Rebellion to set up a therapeutic support network and developed volunteer welfare protocols throughout the European refugee volunteer networks – work explored as co-author on a chapter “The Endeavour Towards Wellbeing” in the “New Internationalists” published 2021.
Justine works with individual clients and groups in woodland and wilderness offering ecotherapy and also alongside the Climate Psychology Alliance supporting other clinicians to take therapy ‘through the door’.
Justine’s work is grounded and resourced in nature-connection, meditation, dance and a deep reverence from the other-than-human realms.
Justine will be bringing all of the above life and professional experience in support of her role as IPT’s Chair of the Spiritual Emergence Special Interest Group.