About Christine
Christine Shannon is a counsellor with nine years of professional experience working in Australia. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety and depression, and offers a calm space for difficult topics. Christine is PACFA credentialed, which she uses to guide her practice and professional standards.
She focuses on practical conversations that help people manage strong emotions like anger, panic and shame. Sessions aim to untangle overwhelming thoughts and build step-by-step ways to cope.
Background and approach
Christine listens without judgement and helps people name what feels hard right now. Her work also addresses trauma and abuse, and related struggles such as abandonment, attachment issues and trust. She helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck and then tries small changes to shift those patterns.
Therapy can include looking at past experiences and what those experiences mean for today. Christine uses a mix of approaches to suit the person in front of her. That can mean learning skills from cognitive behavioural therapy, practising mindfulness to reduce reactivity, or using client-centred listening to clarify goals.
She keeps sessions focused and practical while also leaving room to reflect. People often come with worries about self‑esteem, body image, loneliness or feeling overwhelmed by caregiving. Christine helps set realistic steps and build confidence over time.
She encourages each client to move at their own pace and to notice small gains along the way.
How Christine blends therapeutic approaches online
Client‑centred therapy means the counsellor listens closely and follows the person’s lead. It helps when someone needs space to make sense of feelings and decide their own goals. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and panic symptoms. Mindfulness therapy adds simple attention practices that reduce reactivity and help manage stress and overwhelming emotion.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Christine will discuss what feels most useful and try approaches that fit the person’s needs and preferences. This is a collaborative process and she checks in about what helps and what needs to change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people see facial cues and practise skills in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text‑based messaging are useful for shorter check‑ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable than speaking.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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