About Cristina
Cristina Lorefice is a counsellor who helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, eating concerns and depression. She speaks English and Italian and works with people across the United Kingdom and beyond. Cristina brings 16 years of experience to sessions and focuses on creating a respectful, calm space for people to talk through what matters to them.
Cristina uses a mix of approaches to suit each person.
Background and approach
She draws on client-centred work to prioritise the person's experience and on cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviours. Mindfulness ideas are woven into sessions to help people notice patterns and manage overwhelming feelings. Her style is practical and conversational.
Sessions aim to identify small, doable steps alongside deeper reflection about values and relationships. Cristina pays attention to patterns such as codependency, body image concerns, and issues that can follow trauma or major life change. People come with a wide range of concerns including abandonment, communication problems, caregiver stress, addiction, and relationship difficulties.
Cristina adapts her approach when someone needs focused tools for eating and food-related issues or support around grief and emptiness. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Work is collaborative - goals and methods are set together so the process fits the person.
Cristina encourages realistic, steady change rather than quick fixes.
How Cristina’s approaches fit online therapy
Cognitive behavioural therapy is a hands-on approach that looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. Online sessions can use structured exercises and homework to test new thinking and behaviour patterns, which can help with anxiety and stress. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience. That approach puts the person's priorities first and suits conversational video or phone sessions where space to reflect matters.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cristina will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and agree together which methods to try. This collaborative process makes it easier to adjust the focus over time if different tools are needed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit shorter check-ins or days when writing feels more comfortable. These options help fit therapy around work, caring commitments and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Italian
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