About Christopher
Christopher Atkinson is a counsellor registered with NCPS who brings 14 years of professional experience. He works from the United Kingdom and offers therapy in English, including to international clients. He focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and major life changes.
He offers support around trauma and abuse, bereavement and grief, and difficulties with anger and addiction. He also addresses intimacy-related issues, self-esteem concerns and challenges linked to ADHD and bipolar disorder.
How Christopher works
Parenting strain, family conflict, and blended family issues are part of his wider practice scope. Christopher uses a Client-Centred Therapy approach. That means sessions tend to focus on the person’s own experience, values and strengths rather than imposing directives.
He listens to what matters most to each person and helps them find the next right steps. Sessions can help people cope with chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image worries and control or commitment issues. He also works with concerns connected to abandonment, attachment differences, autism and adoption or foster-care backgrounds.
The emphasis stays on practical ways to manage feelings and relationships. People who prefer straightforward, non-technical language may find his style helpful. He aims to support and empower clients as they take small, achievable steps toward clearer thinking and steadier day-to-day coping.
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What Christopher works with
The areas below are the ones Christopher selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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 counseling
- 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
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Client-centred care and online therapy options
Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s own perspective at the heart of therapy. The counsellor listens without judgement, mirrors what is said, and helps the person discover their own solutions. This approach can be helpful for stress, anxiety, self-esteem and life transitions where people need space to make sense of their feelings.Because Christopher focuses on the person’s strengths and experience, he tailors sessions to what each person finds most useful. Finding the right approach is part of the work and he will collaborate with clients to decide what feels most helpful. That way the therapy fits the client’s goals, pace and preferences rather than a fixed formula.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose what suits their day-to-day life. Video calls are close to an in-person meeting and allow visual cues, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suits quick check-ins or people who prefer not to talk aloud. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel, and they increase flexibility for people living in different locations.
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