Christine Gooddy
Calm, person-centred therapy for trauma recovery
About Christine
Christine Gooddy uses a client-centred way of working that keeps the person at the heart of therapy. She draws on her background in person-centred counselling and adapts the approach to fit each individual. Christine speaks plainly and offers calm support to help people take the next steps when life feels overwhelming.
She has 13 years of experience and much of that time was spent supporting adult survivors of historic abuse alongside one-to-one work.
Background and approach
Christine knows what depression feels like from personal experience and uses that understanding to relate to people who are struggling. Her practice focuses on trauma and the emotions that follow, including post-traumatic stress and sexual assault and abuse.
Christine blends client-centred work with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy, and she draws on relationship tools from the Gottman Method when relationship concerns arise. In sessions she helps people manage anger, low self-esteem, grief and the strain of caregiving, as well as issues such as hoarding, guilt and shame.
She also offers coaching around life purpose, career shifts and midlife changes, and supports people facing postpartum depression, compassion fatigue and the effects of prejudice. Her style is straightforward and practical - she shares strategies she has used herself and adapts them to each person. Christine works with adults in the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English.
Her background with survivors of abuse and long experience with trauma-related work inform how she tailors therapy to the needs of each client.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that suit online working and trauma recovery
Christine blends client-centred work with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to meet people where they are and offer clear strategies. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and building a trusting connection, which helps people feel heard and understood before practical steps are introduced. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviours affect mood and teaches techniques to reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety and many trauma-related responses.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Christine will talk through goals and preferences and will adapt methods as therapy progresses. That means sessions can move between emotional exploration and skills-based exercises depending on what feels most helpful for the person at that time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls let conversation feel more like an in-person meeting, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins and text messaging helps people reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments while still receiving consistent professional support from registered or accredited professionals.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
