About Christie
Christie Alexander Trimmer is an ACA counsellor with eleven years of professional practice. She offers calm, straightforward support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions and relationship difficulties. Christie aims to make conversations feel safe and manageable so people can start making small, practical changes.
She brings warm curiosity to sessions and focuses on finding what helps each person most. Christie has worked with people affected by trauma and substance dependence and was part of the inaugural team delivering the Matrix Program, an intensive outpatient program for substance use.
Background and approach
That experience shaped her skills in supporting people through complex challenges. Christie uses a mix of accessible, evidence-based approaches. She draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to help with unhelpful thinking, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and action, and attachment-based ideas to improve relationships.
She adapts her approach to suit the individual rather than following a single method. In sessions she aims to help people build clarity, practical skills and a greater sense of agency. Conversations are respectful and tailored to each person’s needs.
Christie supports people who want to work on communication problems, grief, family of origin issues, dissociation, fertility-related stress and other concerns. She works in Australia and runs sessions in English. Christie uses a collaborative style to help clients set realistic goals and practise new ways of coping between sessions.
Her focus is on steady progress and restoring balance so people can move forward with more confidence.
How Christie’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, committed steps toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and feelings of emptiness. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavioural experiments. CBT can help reduce worry and change patterns that maintain depression or anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how earlier relationships shape expectations and reactions in current connections, and it can help people improve communication and feel more supported in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christie will discuss your goals, preferences and day-to-day challenges and then suggest options that fit. She sees therapy as a collaborative process and adjusts methods as progress and needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls work well for longer conversations and visual cues, phone sessions suit quieter bandwidth or hands-free check-ins, live chat can be useful for shorter updates, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while maintaining clear, goal-focused work with an appropriately qualified counsellor.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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