About Chris
Chris Stavri is a psychotherapist with more than two decades of experience helping people with stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. He also supports those facing grief, addiction and challenges around intimacy and self-esteem. Chris uses a warm, straightforward style that aims to make people feel heard and safe to talk about difficult things.
He works in a holistic way that pays attention to both body and mind. Sessions focus on building self-awareness and practical skills people can use day to day.
Background and approach
Chris encourages honest conversation about what matters and helps people notice how patterns in their body and thoughts affect their choices. Chris blends talk-based methods with somatic ideas that bring attention to physical sensations and felt experience. He also draws on cognitive behaviour techniques to address unhelpful thinking, and attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current ones.
The aim is steady change rather than quick fixes. Clients can expect a calm, non-judgemental space where the therapist listens carefully and offers clear options for moving forward. Work may include learning coping strategies, practising new ways of relating, and exploring values and goals.
Progress is set at a pace that fits each person’s life. Chris is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and has published a self-help book called Know You Can Change. He practices from the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English, including with international clients when needed.
How somatic and talking approaches work online
Somatic-informed work brings attention to bodily sensations and how they connect to feelings and behaviour. Online sessions can use guided attention to breath, posture and simple movement to help people notice where tension lives and how it shifts, which can be useful for stress, anxiety and trauma-related concerns.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small steps towards them while learning to live with difficult thoughts. It is practical for coping with depression, anxiety and life transitions and can be adapted easily for remote sessions. Attachment-based ideas focus on patterns from past relationships and how they show up now; discussing these patterns can improve communication and emotional responses in present relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will explore your needs, goals and preferences and make collaborative choices about which methods to use. That way the plan reflects what feels most helpful for you.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around family, work and travel, and allow continuity when in-person meetings are impractical. Many people find the variety of options helps them stay engaged and make gradual, steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English