Christine Howell
Supportive person-centred counsellor for trauma recovery
About Christine
Christine Howell is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with ten years' experience in mental and emotional health. She uses a person-centred approach and draws on several therapeutic styles to help people facing anxiety, depression, grief and relationship strain. Christine describes her style as warm, interactive and holding, and she focuses on helping people move forward from difficult times.
She has spent much of her recent work supporting people affected by sexual abuse and has worked with primary, secondary and complex trauma, both recent and historic.
Background and approach
Christine also supports people managing low self-esteem, identity concerns, anger and compassion fatigue. Her practice covers practical difficulties such as career stress and parenting challenges alongside mood conditions including bipolar and depression. In sessions she aims to build steady rapport first.
That relationship gives space to talk about painful experiences and to set realistic goals. She listens with compassion and offers tools that match each person's needs because no two situations are the same. Christine blends client-centred counselling with cognitive-behavioural and narrative ideas to help people reframe thoughts and test new behaviours.
She also uses mindfulness and existential ideas to help people sit with difficult feelings and find meaning after loss or change. Her work is tailored to the individual. Treatment plans are shaped around the person’s goals and life context, and progress is checked as therapy moves forward.
The aim is to help people gain insight, build coping skills and find practical ways to manage day-to-day pressures.
What Christine works with
How Christine works
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Sessions & fees
How Christine’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s own experience and aims to create a respectful, accepting space. In practice that means the counsellor listens closely, reflects what she hears and helps the person choose their own goals. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical techniques to shift unhelpful patterns. It can help with anxiety, low mood and unhelpful coping habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Christine will talk with each person about their situation, goals and preferences and suggest ways of combining approaches. That decision is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses to match what is most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls give face-to-face contact when that connection matters, phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit short check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options help people access consistent support while balancing work, family and other commitments.
| 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
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
