About Christine
Christine Gerstenberger is a UK counsellor who uses somatic work alongside talking therapies to help people feel more grounded in their bodies and minds. She brings five years of practice to sessions and focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety and low mood. Christine aims for simple, practical conversations that make a difference day to day.
Clients can expect a calm, respectful space where experiences are noticed and taken seriously.
Background and approach
Christine draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and client-centred listening when deciding what will help most. She adapts plans to each person rather than following a fixed template. Her areas of concern include grief, relationship and family stress, sleep and eating difficulties, anger and motivation.
She also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar mood patterns, panic and phobias. Additional focuses include attachment issues, dissociation, shame and finding life purpose. Sessions mix talking with body-aware techniques to help feelings settle and choices become clearer.
The aim is to build coping skills and small changes that fit everyday life. Christine works in English and sees people based in the United Kingdom. Starting therapy can feel daunting.
Christine encourages small steps and offers a steady, non-judgemental approach so people can explore what matters to them at a pace that feels right.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Somatic practice focuses on noticing bodily sensations and gentle movement to help people feel more present and less overwhelmed. In online sessions this can mean guided breathing, grounding cues and awareness exercises that are easy to follow at home.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps towards those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people try out new ways of relating to themselves and others. Both approaches can suit concerns such as anxiety, grief, low mood and relationship stress.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Christine will collaborate with each person to decide what feels most useful, adjust techniques over time and check progress together. Therapy is shaped by the client's goals and preferences rather than one fixed method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These give flexibility for busy days, quieter check-ins between sessions and contact from home. Many people find remote therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into family life, work and travel while still working on meaningful change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English