Christopher Atkinson
Supportive counsellor helping you move forward
About Christopher
Christopher Atkinson is a counsellor with 14 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. He focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression and mood difficulties such as bipolar. He also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and problems with anger and addiction.
Christopher believes people know their story best and brings a respectful, non-judgemental attitude to sessions. He listens carefully and helps clients identify their strengths.
Background and approach
His style aims to empower people to make practical changes at a pace that feels manageable. He works with intimacy and relationship concerns, parenting pressures, self-esteem problems, and life transitions. Additional focus areas include ADHD, compassion fatigue, and complex topics such as attachment issues and adoption and foster care concerns.
He also has experience supporting people coping with chronic illness, cancer, or caring responsibilities. Sessions are conversational and centred on the client’s goals. Christopher helps people talk through feelings, spot unhelpful patterns, and try new ways of coping.
He offers straightforward tools and reflection rather than technical jargon. People who prefer a calm, respectful listener who encourages self-directed change tend to find his approach helpful. Christopher supports international clients in English and adapts sessions to suit varying needs and life circumstances.
What Christopher works with
How Christopher works
Listed by Christopher among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
Client-centred care online and practical support
Client-centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens closely, reflects what matters to the client and helps them draw on their own strengths. This approach is often useful for anxiety, relationship issues, grief and adjusting to life changes.Christopher approaches therapy as a collaborative process. He will work with clients to choose the right way of working based on their goals and preferences. Together they review what helps and adjust the approach as needed so sessions stay relevant to everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can fit short check-ins, flexible scheduling or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around 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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
