About Christina
Christina "Chrissie" Keynes is an ACA counsellor with five years' experience supporting adults and students. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress and major life changes. Chrissie aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can be heard and make small, steady changes.
Chrissie works in plain, practical ways. She helps people build better emotional regulation and stronger self-confidence. She supports people who are grieving, facing family conflict, or adjusting to illness or caregiver roles.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and centred on the person's priorities. Clients can expect a mix of listening and practical strategies. Chrissie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to develop coping skills and reduce overwhelming worry.
She also helps people notice unhelpful patterns, like codependency or control issues, and build new ways of relating to themselves and others. Her experience covers a broad range of concerns including abandonment issues, attachment difficulties, chronic pain and illness, cancer-related distress, and end-of-life matters. Chrissie also helps with communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and family of origin issues.
Outside work she spends time walking her husky and adventuring with her family and two kids. She approaches therapy with warmth and steady support, aiming to help people feel more capable and in control of day-to-day life.
How Chrissie uses practical approaches in online therapy
Chrissie works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on reducing anxiety and improving coping. One approach she often uses is skills-based work for emotional regulation - teaching breathing, grounding and thought management techniques to help calm intense worry and panic. Another common strand is grief-focused support that helps people process loss, manage difficult memories and find ways to rebuild routines after bereavement.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Chrissie will discuss your goals and preferences, try strategies with you, and adjust the plan as needed. She aims to match methods to practical needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all model, and she involves you in deciding what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is hard. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, journalling between sessions or shorter, more frequent support. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, caregiving and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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