Christine McInnes, BACP

Christine McInnes helps people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed or uncertain about their relationships and life direction. She presents a calm, accepting presence and works with clients to uncover strengths they can use right now. Christine is a BACP counsellor working in the United Kingdom and offers practical, compassionate support.

Her sessions focus on helping people recognise who they are at heart and use that as a foundation for change. She encourages self-acceptance and gently challenges patterns that hold people back. Conversations are straightforward and paced to each person’s comfort level.

Christine has five years of experience supporting people dealing with addictions, relationship difficulties, family tensions, trauma and abuse, and grief. She also helps with related issues such as attachment and abandonment, communication problems, codependency, control struggles and problems stemming from family of origin.

Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centred listening, motivational interviewing and psychodynamic thinking, along with trauma-focused methods when needed. This allows her to attend to both current behaviours and the deeper patterns behind them.

Sessions aim to build clearer choices and more reliable ways of coping. Practical steps and reflective conversation are blended so people leave with ideas they can try between meetings. Christine welcomes people who want a respectful, steady therapist to think things through with them.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Christine uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early patterns affect current relationships and emotional responses, which can help when people feel stuck in repeating relationship cycles. She also works in a client-centred way, offering attentive listening and reflecting back what matters most so clients can discover their own solutions.

Motivational interviewing is another element she uses to support change in behaviours such as addiction. This method focuses on drawing out a person's own motivations and exploring small, achievable steps towards different choices.

Choosing an approach is collaborative. Christine will talk through goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and together they will try methods that match the person's needs. The approach can shift over time as new issues come up or as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet with her. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited; live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical, steady progress.