About Cristina
Cristina Jimenez is an ACA counsellor who draws on five years' experience to support adults facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. She combines a warm, grounded presence with practical conversation to help people feel heard and understood. Cristina places importance on both emotional and bodily experience when working with clients.
She focuses on individual counselling for adults. Sessions often look at anxiety, low mood, self-esteem and the impact of past trauma or abuse.
How Cristina works
Cristina also helps people work through issues around attachment, abandonment, sexuality and intimacy in straightforward language. Movement and the body are part of her practice. As a trained dancer and movement therapist, she uses somatic awareness to help people notice how feelings show up physically.
She brings this alongside talking therapies rather than replacing discussion or reflection. Cristina is an ACA counsellor and is located in Australia. She offers sessions in English and does not accept international clients.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs, with room for practical skills, emotional processing and gentle body-based strategies. People who choose Cristina can expect short-term goals alongside longer exploration when needed. She encourages small, actionable steps between sessions and regular check-ins about what is working.
The overall aim is clearer understanding, reduced distress and improved day-to-day coping.
What Cristina works with
The areas below are the ones Cristina 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | ACA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Many of Cristina's methods focus on combining talk work with bodily awareness. Somatic-informed work notices physical sensations and uses movement or breath to help people access feelings in the body; this can assist with trauma, anxiety and stress. Movement-informed techniques draw on her background as a dancer to introduce gentle movement or posture awareness alongside discussion, which can help when emotions feel stuck.Therapeutic choice is flexible. Cristina treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss goals, preferences and what feels manageable, then adapt sessions so techniques are matched to each person's needs.
Online formats make this flexible in practice. Video calls allow visual cues and the option to incorporate small movement exercises. Phone sessions can be less demanding on bandwidth and helpful for focused conversation. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, written reflection or people who prefer typing over talking. These options help fit therapy into work breaks, busy days or when travel is difficult, while keeping a steady therapy plan that moves at the client's pace.
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