About Christine
Christine Howell is a counsellor with a decade of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety and major life changes. She works in a warm, interactive way and aims to build a steady rapport so clients feel able to talk about hard things. Christine uses a person-centred stance that keeps the client's goals central to each session.
Her practice focuses on a broad range of concerns including depression, relationship difficulties, grief and parenting strains.
Background and approach
She has spent significant time working with people affected by sexual abuse and with non-abusing parents of children who have been sexually abused. Christine also helps people manage anger, low self-esteem and the emotional impact of trauma, both recent and historic. Sessions are tailored to each person.
She draws on cognitive approaches to help people change unhelpful thinking and on narrative and existential ideas to explore meaning and identity. Mindfulness techniques are used to manage distressing feelings in the moment and to develop steadier coping skills. Christine describes her style as compassionate, non-judgemental and practical.
She aims to create a steady, predictable space where people can set meaningful goals and work steadily towards them. She recognises that therapy can feel difficult and stays alongside clients as they make changes. Based in the United Kingdom, Christine blends different methods to meet individual needs.
Her work often balances talking, practical steps and reflective exercises so people can make real progress between sessions.
How Christine blends therapeutic approaches online
Client-Centred Therapy places the person's experience at the centre and focuses on empathy, acceptance and supporting personal choice; it helps when someone needs a steady, non-judgemental space to talk. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and uses practical exercises to reduce anxiety and unhelpful patterns. Narrative Therapy helps people reframe their life stories and separate themselves from problems so they can see different options and possibilities.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Christine will discuss goals and preferences and try different methods to see what helps most. Sessions often mix talking, small practical tasks and reflective work so the plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone is useful when video is impractical, live chat supports a shorter check-in, and messaging lets people work in shorter bursts. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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