About Cristina
Cristina Jimenez is an ACA counsellor who brings five years of practical experience to her work. She focuses on supporting adults with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns and trauma. Her approach centres on warmth, presence and a calm, steady listening style that helps people feel heard.
Cristina combines talk-based counselling with movement-informed work drawn from her background as a dancer and dance movement therapist. She pays attention to how the body holds emotion and uses gentle movement or somatic noticing when it helps a person feel more grounded.
Background and approach
This can be especially useful for people who find it hard to put feelings into words. She aims to create a collaborative space where clients set the pace and goals. Sessions tend to be practical and down-to-earth, with strategies for managing stress and anxiety alongside opportunities to reflect on relationships and self-esteem.
Cristina also supports people dealing with grief, attachment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and chronic illness or pain. Cristina is training at a beginning level in Somatic Experiencing, which complements her movement work and counselling. She welcomes people from diverse backgrounds, including the LGBTIQ+ community, and works with adults exploring sexuality, intimacy and identity.
Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Cristina asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to get started, and scheduling is arranged once the questionnaire is submitted.
How movement-aware approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic-informed counselling notices how sensations and movement relate to feelings. It uses gentle body awareness and movement prompts to help people recognise held tension and emotional responses. This approach can be helpful for anxiety, trauma and stress where words alone feel limited.Dance movement therapy brings attention to rhythm, breath and small movement patterns as another way to access emotion. Even online, a therapist may invite subtle movement or grounding practices that fit the individual's comfort level and physical space. These techniques can complement verbal processing and offer new ways to regulate anxiety.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with clients to choose techniques that match their goals and preferences. That might mean focusing on coping skills one week and somatic noticing the next, or blending both across several sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging, which give practical flexibility. Video allows face-to-face interaction and movement observation. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or for quieter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, reflective journalling prompts or people who prefer typing. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep continuity when in-person sessions are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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