About Christiane
Christiane Alfred is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with adults and young people aged 16 and over. Her approach aims to make it easier to talk about tough topics and to find clearer ways forward.
Christiane uses straightforward listening to understand what matters to each person. She creates space for clients to speak without fear of judgement and to notice how thoughts and feelings affect daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be practical and conversational rather than full of jargon. She blends several approaches to suit each person's needs. Cognitive behavioural techniques help spot unhelpful thinking and try different actions.
Client-centred work focuses on the person's own experience and goals. Psychodynamic ideas are used where looking at past patterns helps explain current concerns. Her clinical focus includes family issues, parenting strains, self-esteem, relationships, career worries and coping with life changes.
She also supports people dealing with depression, anger, isolation and body image concerns. Additional interests include adoption and foster care, attachment and family of origin issues. Christiane is based in the United Kingdom and speaks English and Shona.
She draws on three years of counselling and psychotherapy experience to guide each session, helping people break problems into manageable steps and build small, practical changes. People usually begin by describing the issue they want to change.
From there she helps set simple goals and chooses methods that suit the person, whether that means working on thoughts, exploring past patterns, or focusing on present-day solutions.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own experience and goals, with the counsellor offering non-judgemental listening and encouragement to help people find their own solutions. This approach is useful when someone needs space to be heard and to build confidence in their own choices.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. It helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small, practical changes that reduce anxiety or lift mood. CBT is often used for stress, worry and low mood.
Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to recurring patterns from the past that affect present relationships and feelings. It can help when people want to understand why they repeat certain behaviours or feel stuck in familiar ways of relating.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss what matters most to the person, try different methods where needed, and adjust the plan based on goals and preferences. That means clients and therapist work together to find what helps.
Online sessions include video calls, phone appointments, live chat and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, study and family life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Many people find the flexibility helps them keep momentum between sessions while still getting the support they need.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Shona
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