Christine Burcham
Integrative humanist counsellor focused on practical change
About Christine
Christine Burcham works from an integrative, humanist perspective and blends practical tools with a person-centred stance. She is BACP accredited, and she draws on different therapy methods to suit the needs of each person. Christine aims to make sessions straightforward and approachable for those feeling overwhelmed by life.
She listens first and helps people name what is worrying them. Conversations focus on thoughts, feelings and everyday patterns that keep problems going.
Background and approach
The aim is to find small, realistic steps that make life feel more manageable. Christine uses techniques from cognitive behavioural work to help with anxious or low mood thinking. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live with difficult feelings while still moving towards what matters to them.
Emotion-focused and attachment-based ways of working are used when relationship patterns and emotional connection are central concerns. Her background includes five years of direct therapeutic practice alongside longer experience in social care and the NHS. That history has given practical insight into common difficulties such as anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and low self-esteem.
People come for help with a wide range of issues, from stress and sleep problems to addiction, ADHD, body image and coping with major life changes. Christine describes therapy as a collaborative process and supports people in finding approaches that fit their goals and pace.
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Sessions & fees
How Christine’s approaches work online
Christine commonly blends cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in online work. CBT helps identify unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and offers practical exercises to test new ways of responding. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on noticing difficult feelings while taking actions that match personal values, which can help when avoidance has become limiting.She also uses attachment-based and emotion-focused ideas when relationship patterns and emotional connection are central to the difficulty. These approaches aim to clarify how past and present relationships shape current responses and to strengthen emotional awareness in everyday interactions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Christine works collaboratively to decide which methods suit a person's goals, needs and comfort with online formats. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversational work, phone calls can fit a short break at work, and messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around busy lives and varying energy levels.
| 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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
