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Masamba Juster, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 10 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseGriefDepressionCoping with life changes
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Masamba Juster uses practical, person-focused therapy to help people handle hard moments. She works in a calm, respectful way and adapts conversations to each person's situation. Masamba has a decade of experience supporting people with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and depression, and she aims to make the first steps feel manageable.
Masamba combines approaches that focus on thoughts, feelings and personal values. She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot patterns that keep problems going and on acceptance-based strategies to help people live with difficult feelings while moving towards what matters to them.
Background and approach
Attachment-based and emotionally focused ways of working guide conversations about closeness, trust and how early relationships shape current difficulties. In sessions she listens without judgement and helps people try small, practical changes between meetings. That might include short behavioural experiments, noticing thoughts and reactions, or choosing one value-led action to try that week.
Masamba explains ideas in plain language and sets simple steps rather than lengthy plans. She supports people with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, career worries, compassion fatigue, addictions, eating and sleeping difficulties, and challenges linked to chronic illness or caring roles. Additional focuses include abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, neurodiversity, and body image concerns.
Masamba is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, often shown as BACP. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then book sessions that suit their availability.
How chosen approaches work online
Masamba commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns and testing small changes to reduce distress and improve daily routines.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Masamba will talk with each person about what feels most useful and try methods that fit their goals and life. She checks in regularly and adapts the plan if something is not helping.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be quicker and need less bandwidth, live chat works well for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and travel commitments.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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