Christine Howell, BACP

Christine Howell is an integrative counsellor based in London who brings ten years of experience supporting people through a wide range of emotional and relationship challenges. She works from the belief that each person is the expert on their own life and uses clinical skills, knowledge, and lived experience to support clients as they address difficulties such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, grief, relationship conflict, parenting challenges, and life transitions.

Over the past five years much of Christine's clinical focus has been on sexual abuse and trauma. She has considerable experience working with non-abusing parents of children who have been sexually abused, and with primary, secondary, and complex trauma whether current or historical. Her practice also supports people dealing with identity and LGBT concerns, intimacy-related difficulties, anger, bipolar and ADHD-related challenges, career stresses, and compassion fatigue.

Christine describes her therapeutic stance as warm, holding, and interactive. She offers a non-judgmental, unbiased space where clients and therapist develop a consistent rapport that supports growth and insight. As an integrative practitioner her work is person-centered and tailored to individual needs, drawing on cognitive-behavioural methods, humanistic and psychodynamic ideas, transactional analysis, trauma-informed approaches, and solution-focused techniques to build a treatment plan that fits the person in front of her.

She holds BACP accreditation - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and applies a compassionate, sensitive presence to help people move forward and reclaim agency in their lives.