Christina Murphy, BACP

Christina Murphy is a counsellor who focuses on building a trusting, accepting relationship with each person she meets. She works from that base to help people question old rules and beliefs that no longer serve them. Her approach is practical and down to earth, aimed at helping people make real change when they want it.

Christina uses a mix of ways to work, including attachment-based ideas, client-centred listening, and cognitive behavioural techniques. Sessions are conversational and paced to each person. She helps people untangle stressful thoughts, manage anxiety and depression, and work through grief or trauma in manageable steps.

Many of the issues she supports include relationship and intimacy concerns, anger, sleep problems and career stress. She also addresses patterns like codependency, attachment wounds, control issues and feeling stuck in midlife or during separation. Christina offers help with compassion fatigue and caregiver stress as well.

Her style is warm and non-judgemental. She encourages people to meet difficult feelings with kindness and curiosity rather than criticism. Change can be gradual or quicker than expected, and she works with people to find what fits best.

Christina is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She works with people in the United Kingdom and carries out sessions using video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching process helps link someone to her for scheduling.

How Christina's approaches work online

Attachment-based work looks at how early connections affect current relationships and emotional patterns, and it helps people who struggle with trust, abandonment fears or intense relationship reactions. Client-centred counselling focuses on listening without judgment and helping people feel heard so they can find their own answers and build self-compassion. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, examines unhelpful thoughts and habits and offers practical steps to change them, which can ease anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Christina collaborates with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences. She adapts what she uses over time so sessions respond to what helps most, rather than following a fixed plan.

Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility. Video lets people read facial cues and body language, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or for quieter surroundings, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and daily life.