Christine Gooddy
Compassionate counsellor focused on trauma recovery
BACP United Kingdom
- Experience
- 13 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Trauma and abuse, Grief, Depression
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Client-Centred Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Christine
Christine Gooddy is a counsellor who uses a client-centred approach and adapts other methods to fit each person she meets. She draws on 13 years of clinical experience supporting adults affected by trauma, depression and major life changes.
Background and approach
She writes plainly and listens closely to what a person needs in the moment. Christine has spent much of her career working with adult survivors of historic abuse, and she also offers one-to-one work across a wide range of concerns.
She understands the heavy toll of depression from personal experience and uses that insight to guide practical recovery steps. Her practice often addresses grief, anger, self-esteem, relationship strains and caregiver stress.
Her approach is rooted in Person-Centred counselling - often called client-centred therapy - which places the person’s views at the core of sessions. She blends this with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and trauma-focused ideas when those tools are useful.
The Gottman Method is also part of her toolkit and is drawn on when relationship patterns are in focus. Christine pays attention to how body and mind interact and uses that awareness to help people manage strong emotions and trauma responses.
She aims to calm the inner critic and build steady coping strategies. Sessions are collaborative and shaped around practical steps people can use between meetings.
Working with Christine is a conversational process. She aims to be calm and compassionate while tailoring methods to each person’s needs.
People who want clear, down-to-earth support for recovery and change often find this style helpful.
Approaches for online healing and practical support
Christine draws on client-centred therapy, which puts the person’s own experience at the heart of each session and focuses on listening, empathy and supporting self-directed change. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, non-judgemental space to talk through painful experiences.She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and try small, practical experiments to change them. CBT-style work can help with depression, anxiety and everyday coping strategies by turning insight into action.
Finding the right therapeutic approach is a team effort. Christine works collaboratively to match methods to someone’s goals and preferences, and she adjusts the balance of listening, CBT techniques or trauma-focused work as the relationship develops.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging, giving flexibility for different needs. Video calls are useful when visual connection helps the work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text can be a shorter check-in or a way to keep momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and still keep continuity of care.
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Experience
13+ years
Registered with
BACP
Languages
English