Chris Rottcher
Relational counsellor focused on healing and meaning
About Chris
Chris Rottcher helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, parenting pressures, low self-esteem, addiction and grief. He also supports those dealing with eating concerns, anger, career shifts, compassion fatigue, ADHD and a range of other life challenges. Chris is named up front because he wants people to feel they are talking to a real person from the first line.
Chris works in a straightforward, relational way. He aims to listen closely and respond honestly.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building trust so people feel able to go deeper over time. He draws on several therapeutic approaches, including attachment-based, client-centred and mindfulness work. That means attention to past and present relationships, empathic listening, and practical ways to notice and calm difficult feelings in the body.
Chris believes trauma often plays a part when people get stuck. He talks through past hurts and current patterns in a paced way. The goal is lasting change rather than quick fixes, helping people feel more balanced and able to make clearer choices.
With seven years of experience and the NCPS credential, Chris blends practical techniques with reflective conversation. He offers sessions in English and Afrikaans and accepts people from outside the United Kingdom. To start, a short questionnaire helps match needs to possible next steps.
What Chris works with
How Chris works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Chris uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and behaviour; this helps when worry, trust or repeated patterns are getting in the way of daily life. He also works in a client-centred way, focusing on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and can find their own solutions. Mindfulness techniques are used to help people notice bodily sensations and manage difficult emotions in the moment.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy itself. Chris treats the process as collaborative and will talk through different options with clients to find what fits their aims and preferences. That decision is reviewed as therapy progresses so adjustments can be made together.
Practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy week and reducing travel time. Online work can make it easier to schedule shorter check-ins, or to avoid being on camera if someone prefers a phone-style conversation; confirm the current session formats before booking. The focus remains on building a strong therapeutic relationship and using approaches that help people process past hurts and cope with present challenges.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English, Afrikaans
