Christine Howell, BACP

Christine Howell is a London-based integrative counsellor with ten years of experience supporting people through a wide range of emotional and relational challenges. She works from the belief that each person is the expert on their own life and uses her accumulated skills and knowledge to help clients explore their presenting issues and move toward meaningful change. Christine offers compassionate, non-judgemental support for concerns including anxiety, depression, relationship and family conflicts, low self-esteem, grief, identity questions, parenting pressures, and career stress.

Over the past five years much of Christine’s work has focused on sexual abuse, and she has developed extensive experience supporting non-abusing parents of children who have been sexually abused as well as working with primary, secondary and complex trauma, both recent and historic. Her approach is warm, holding and interactive, and she aims to build a consistent rapport that fosters a healthy therapeutic alliance.

As an integrative practitioner Christine draws primarily on a person-centered framework and combines cognitive behavioural techniques, humanistic and psychodynamic ideas, transactional analysis, trauma-informed strategies and solution-focused methods to tailor therapy to each client’s needs. She holds the BACP credential - a recognised professional credential from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and uses that training alongside practical experience to help clients set meaningful goals, gain insight and work through difficult emotions and behaviours.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Christine works from a person-centered foundation that places the client's perspective at the heart of therapy. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building an empathic, accepting relationship that helps people feel understood and gradually explore their goals and values - it is helpful for issues like low self-esteem, relationship difficulties and life transitions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical tools to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns. CBT is often used to address anxiety, depression and responses to stress by developing coping strategies and problem-solving skills.

Narrative Therapy helps people reframe the stories they tell about themselves and their lives, separating them from problem-saturated identities and creating space for alternative perspectives and strengths. It can be useful for identity concerns, grief, and long-standing relational patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and Christine collaborates with each person to determine the best fit based on their needs, goals and preferences. She adapts methods as the work evolves so therapy remains responsive and client-led.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - appointments by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging allow people to access support from home or while balancing work, family and other commitments. These options can make it easier to maintain continuity of care and engage with therapy in ways that suit different communication styles and schedules.