Christine Gooddy, BACP

Christine Gooddy is a counsellor who uses a client-centred approach and adapts it to each person she meets. She has 13 years of experience working with adult survivors of historic abuse and with many other people who face depression, grief and relationship strain. Christine draws on practical strategies she has used herself to manage a harsh inner critic and to build healthier ways of coping.

She focuses on trauma and the emotional effects that follow. Much of her work looks at how the mind and body respond to stress and distress. Christine offers calm, compassionate support and aims to create a connection that both client and counsellor can feel.

Her practice includes cognitive behavioural techniques and trauma-focused methods alongside the person-centred foundation. Sessions often combine talking, practical coping strategies and attention to bodily responses when these help the person make changes. The Gottman Method informs work around relationship issues when that is relevant.

Christine also works with concerns such as caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, self-esteem problems, anger, life transitions and career strain. She supports people dealing with postpartum depression, self-harm thoughts, past sexual assault and discrimination-related distress among other issues.

Based in the United Kingdom, Christine is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP. Sessions are held in English. To begin, people use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

How Christine's approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of sessions and prioritises a supportive relationship. Online work with this approach focuses on listening, reflecting and helping people find their own solutions to emotional difficulty. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical steps and exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it can help with depression, anxiety and coping strategies.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Christine will work together with each person to decide which mix of person-centred listening, CBT tools or trauma-focused techniques fits their needs and goals. That choice is reviewed as therapy progresses so the plan can change if something else seems more useful.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm the current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit counselling into everyday life by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins on busy days, and enabling sessions that match work or caregiving schedules. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt methods so practical exercises and coping strategies are workable across different settings.