Christine Porter
Practical person-centred counselling for life changes
About Christine
Christine Porter works from a person-centred and solution-focused viewpoint. She aims to create a calm, straightforward space where people can talk about anxiety, depression, relationship strain and life changes. Christine has four years of professional experience and holds BACP registration, which she uses as a foundation for her practice.
People come to her for many reasons - grief, career uncertainty, stress, anger, low self-esteem and feelings of emptiness. She also supports those dealing with abandonment, communication problems, caregiver strain, chronic illness, fertility issues and the long-term effects of family problems.
Background and approach
Christine names autism and additional learning needs among her areas of focus. Her style is warm and plain-speaking. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with the client’s priorities driving the work.
She brings practical tools and invites people to try small, manageable changes between sessions. Christine describes therapy as teamwork. She asks what a person wants from counselling and helps set realistic steps toward those goals.
Where a different direction feels better, she will discuss other options openly. Sessions are offered in English and Christine accepts international clients. Appointments are available by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging, with subscription-based payment that can be cancelled at any time.
What Christine works with
How Christine works
Listed by Christine among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
How client-centred and solution-focused work translates online
Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the process. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows the client’s priorities, helping them voice what matters most and build from there. This approach suits people who need time to be heard and to reconnect with their own values.Solution-Focused Therapy is short-term and practical. It concentrates on small, achievable changes and on what a person wants to happen next. This can help with stress, anxiety, relationship problems and coping with life transitions by keeping sessions forward-looking and task based.
Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. Christine will talk through methods with each person and tailor the mix to their goals, needs and preferences. The decision about which tools to use happens together, so the pace and focus fit the individual.
Online sessions give flexibility for different rhythms of life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, phone sessions can be easier on low bandwidth, live chat suits quick check-ins and text-based messaging supports shorter or more frequent contact. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, caring duties or travel, and let people choose the format that feels most practical for them.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
