About Christine
Christine Gooddy offers a person-centred way of working that puts each client at the heart of the process. She combines a calm, compassionate manner with practical techniques to help people facing emotional pain and life changes. Christine draws on 13 years of experience supporting adults through difficult events and long-term recovery.
She has particular experience with trauma and abuse and with depression. She also helps people dealing with grief, relationship strain, anger, low self-esteem and career uncertainty.
How Christine works
Christine supports those coping with compassion fatigue, postpartum depression and the emotional fallout of prejudice and discrimination. Her practice blends client-centred counselling with cognitive behavioural ideas and trauma-focused work. That means conversations aim to be warm and respectful while also offering tools to notice patterns and try different responses.
She also uses aspects of the Gottman Method when relationship skills are part of the work. Christine says the connection between counsellor and client matters for real change. She shares that she has personal experience with depression and has used many of the strategies she now offers.
This background informs a grounded, realistic approach to building coping skills and reducing self-criticism. Sessions can cover practical steps like emotion regulation, challenging unhelpful thinking, pacing recovery from trauma and restoring everyday routines. Christine works in a way that adapts to what each person needs and what helps them feel safer and more capable.
To begin, people choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
Christine lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Christine works with
The areas below are the ones Christine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches for online trauma and mood work
Christine combines person-centred counselling with cognitive behavioural techniques to help people work with difficult memories and persistent low mood. Client-Centred Therapy centres the person's experience and aims to build a trusting relationship, offering a calm space to talk and reflect. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps identify and test unhelpful thinking and routine patterns, giving practical steps to change reactions and behaviour.Finding the right approach is treated as a collaboration. Christine will listen to your goals, discuss different ways of working, and agree on methods that fit your needs and preferences. She adapts between gentle, exploratory work and more structured skill-building depending on what helps you make progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are useful for fuller conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or busy schedules while still accessing the same therapeutic approaches.
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