Christine Burcham, BACP

Christine Burcham works from an integrative, humanist approach that adapts to each person’s needs. She uses straightforward conversation and practical exercises to help someone feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, low confidence or relationship strain. Christine aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk without having to pretend and figure out what matters to them.

She listens for what a person already knows about their life and helps them build on that. Sessions can involve looking at thoughts and behaviours, exploring emotions, and practising small changes that make daily life easier. That mix is drawn from methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based approaches.

Christine brings five years of hands-on therapy experience alongside earlier work in social care and the NHS. Her background includes supporting people with trauma, grief, mood difficulties and long-term health challenges. She also works with concerns like eating and sleeping problems, chronic pain and caregiver stress.

Clients may talk about career pressures, parenting strain, identity and intimacy worries, or struggles with addiction and codependency. Christine also supports people dealing with dissociation, domestic violence, bereavement, and serious illness. She tailors pace and focus to each person’s situation.

She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are offered in English and are provided via video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to pair a person with the service and schedule sessions.

Therapeutic approaches for online counselling

Christine often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values instead of fighting every feeling. It is useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thought patterns and try small, practical experiments to change them. This approach often helps with low mood, sleep problems and managing worry.

Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Christine will talk through what is troubling you, your goals and preferences, and together you will decide which methods to try and how quickly to move forward.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text‑based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls let you see facial cues and work in depth, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day, and chat or messaging can be used for shorter check‑ins or if writing feels easier. The variety makes it simpler to keep therapy going around work, caregiving or health commitments.