Christine Gerstenberger, BACP

Christine Gerstenberger uses practical, person-focused counselling to help people notice what matters and make steady changes. She is a BACP counsellor with five years' experience and she meets people with stress, anxiety, low mood and struggles with self-esteem. Christine writes in plain language and keeps sessions straightforward and goal-oriented.

She adapts her approach to each person's needs. Sessions can include techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help manage unhelpful thoughts and build valued routines. Attachment-based ideas are woven in when relationships and patterns from the past are affecting day-to-day life.

People come to Christine for many concerns, including grief, anger, sleeping and eating difficulties, ADHD-related challenges, and coping with life changes. She also supports those facing burnout, compassion fatigue, or career-related stress. Conversations focus on practical steps as well as emotional understanding.

Christine aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk things through without jargon. She works collaboratively to set clear, achievable goals and checks in on progress between meetings. Work may include simple home tasks, behavioural experiments, and learning coping skills.

Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat or messaging. Prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions through the service. Fees vary with location and the subscription model used.

How Christine's approaches work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that reflect their values to build a more meaningful life. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and struggles with motivation. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and uses practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with panic, phobias, obsessive thoughts and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and can help when trust, communication or feeling close to others is challenging.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process and Christine treats this as a collaboration. She will listen to what matters to the client, try out approaches that fit their goals, and adapt plans based on how things are progressing. The aim is to find methods that feel useful and realistic for day-to-day life.

Online therapy with Christine uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for face-to-face conversations and interactive work, phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits brief updates or reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.