About Chris
Chris Rottcher is a counsellor who helps people coping with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma, parenting strain and low self-esteem. He also supports those dealing with addiction, grief, eating concerns, anger, career change and ADHD. Sessions welcome LGBT concerns, adoption and family-related challenges.
Chris holds an NCPS credential and works from a somatic-minded approach that links body and emotion. Chris takes a straightforward, relational approach in sessions. He aims for clear, honest communication so people feel heard.
Background and approach
That sense of trust makes it easier to look into painful memories and current patterns. Work is paced to what each person can manage. He draws on a mix of therapies to match the person and the problem.
Somatic ideas help people notice bodily signals tied to emotions. Attachment-based and client-centred methods focus on connection and understanding in the room. Therapy often looks at how past experiences shape present behaviour.
Chris encourages reflection to increase self-awareness and personal agency. Practical techniques are used alongside talking to help people feel steadier in daily life. Sessions are offered in English and Afrikaans and can take place online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Chris has seven years of experience and accepts international clients. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions via the Start Therapy button. He describes his work as a journey rather than a quick fix.
The aim is to process painful events, build clearer self-understanding and leave people feeling more balanced and able to make choices in their lives.
How somatic and relational approaches work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to the body and its sensations as part of emotional processing. This can help when stress, trauma or anxiety show up as physical tension or discomfort. Noticing breath, posture and bodily signals is used alongside talking to understand what is happening in the moment.Attachment-based work focuses on patterns of relating learned from early relationships. It helps people notice how those patterns influence current friendships, parenting or intimate relationships and aims to build more supported ways of connecting. Client-centred therapy places the person's experience at the heart of sessions and relies on empathy and non-judgemental listening to foster growth.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify what fits your needs, goals and preferences, adjusting methods as progress is made. This means the plan can change as you learn more about what helps.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or travel and allow people to join from different locations. Many clients find that the variety of options helps them keep momentum between sessions and access support in ways that suit their daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Afrikaans