Christine McInnes
Practical, person-centred counselling for life challenges
About Christine
Christine McInnes welcomes people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin. She writes simply and directly, helping clients notice the strengths they already have and use them to face hard situations. Christine is a BACP registered counsellor working in the United Kingdom and she brings five years of practice to her sessions.
Her work focuses on addictions, relationship difficulties, family problems, trauma and abuse, and grief. Clients also come to her for issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, codependency, and communication problems.
Background and approach
She supports people coping with chronic illness, cancer, caregiving strain, fertility questions, and the fallout of divorce or separation. Christine’s style is warm and person-centred. She encourages people to recognise their own resources and makes space for honest conversation about painful experiences.
Sessions are aimed at helping people build confidence, set meaningful goals, and make changes that fit their life. She draws on a mix of approaches that look at how early relationships shape current patterns, how trauma affects the body and mind, and how motivation can be renewed when addiction or avoidance is present.
Those methods are adapted to each person rather than applied rigidly. Practical issues are part of the work. Christine helps people with communication skills, boundary setting and managing stressful caregiving roles.
She also supports those facing illness and bereavement to find steadier ways of coping. People who value an honest, reflective approach tend to find her helpful. If her way of working sounds like a match, the next step is a short questionnaire and a scheduled session to see how things fit.
What Christine works with
How Christine works
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Sessions & fees
How Christine’s approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people understand why they repeat certain dynamics in close relationships. It can be useful for attachment issues, abandonment fears, and repeating family patterns. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on building a trusting, non-judgemental relationship so people can explore difficult feelings at their own pace and gain clarity about what they want. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way of talking that helps people find their own reasons to change, often used with addictions and commitment issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Christine will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then recommend a blend of methods. This is a collaborative process and plans are adjusted as therapy continues.
Online sessions can be arranged by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different lives and schedules. Video calls let people use non-verbal cues during deeper work, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work, live chat offers shorter check-ins, and text messaging can help maintain regular contact between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
