Christine Smith, BACP

Christine Smith has practised as a counsellor in the United Kingdom for over two decades. She brings 22 years of experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and depression. Christine works to build an open, non-judgemental space for talking through hard emotions and difficult choices.

She uses a mix of gentle, practical approaches that match each person's needs. Sessions often include straightforward strategies for coping, mood management and daily routines. Christine also offers support around relationship concerns, intimacy issues and communication problems.

People come to her for help with sleep, eating difficulties, anger and low self-esteem. She also supports those facing grief, major life changes, parenting strain and compassion fatigue. Addictions, bipolar mood concerns, panic and ADHD are within her scope of focus.

Christine draws on client-centred counselling alongside cognitive behavioural techniques and dialectical behaviour ideas to help people notice patterns and try different responses. Hypnotherapy and Imago relationship work are additional options she may use when they suit someone's goals.

Her approach is practical and down to earth. Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to what the person needs. Christine communicates in English and accepts international clients who wish to work with her online.

Approaches and online therapy options

Christine uses client-centred counselling to put the person's own goals and pace at the heart of work, offering space to talk and make sense of feelings. Cognitive behavioural therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical changes in behaviour to ease anxiety, low mood and panic. Dialectical behaviour therapy provides skills for emotional regulation and managing strong feelings when someone needs tools to steady their reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Christine will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, adjusting techniques as understanding deepens. That collaborative planning helps keep sessions focused on what will make a difference in daily life.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video lets people read expressions and have a fuller conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or live chat can work for shorter check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family commitments and travel.