Christine Gerstenberger
Compassionate counsellor focused on practical change
About Christine
Christine Gerstenberger is a counsellor who uses a warm, respectful style to help people facing stress, anxiety and depression. She holds BACP registration and brings five years of experience to her work. She aims to create a straightforward space where people can talk about what feels hard right now.
She works with common struggles such as low self-esteem, grief, motivation and challenges with sleeping or eating. Christine also supports people managing mood disorders, bipolar symptoms, panic attacks and obsessive thoughts.
Background and approach
She helps those coping with life changes, career strain, compassion fatigue and difficulties around relationships and communication. Her practice blends several approaches to suit the person sitting in front of her. Christine uses acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and build meaning.
She draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to look at thinking patterns and learning new ways to respond. Attachment-based and client-centred elements shape how she pays attention to connection and personal experience. Sessions are designed around each person’s needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Christine explains options, listens carefully and works with clients to set practical, manageable steps. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aiming to make therapy feel useful and understandable. People choose her when they want help tackling anger, loneliness, control issues, dissociation or feelings of emptiness.
Christine also addresses more specific concerns such as seasonal affective disorder, phobias, obsessive compulsive difficulties and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. She offers care in English and practises in the United Kingdom.
What Christine works with
How Christine works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, low motivation and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and trying practical experiments to reduce symptoms like panic, obsessive thoughts or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how relationships and early experiences shape current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Christine will discuss different methods and recommend what fits your goals and preferences. The process is collaborative - you and the therapist review what helps and adjust the plan as you go.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can suit quick updates, shorter check-ins or times when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and everyday life while still using the same therapeutic approaches and techniques offered in person.
| 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
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
