Christine Gooddy
Calm, experienced therapist for trauma recovery
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About Christine
Christine Gooddy works from a client-centred base and adapts her work to fit each person. She has 13 years' experience supporting adults who have experienced trauma and historic abuse. She writes plainly about having lived with depression and uses that experience in her approach.
Christine aims to be calm and compassionate in sessions and focuses on building a trusting connection with the person she sees. Her practice often addresses trauma-related difficulties and the emotional effects that follow.
Background and approach
She combines person-centred ideas with other methods to match what each person needs. This can include practical tools to manage low mood, grief, anger or overwhelming self-criticism. Christine has worked extensively with survivors and in group settings over her career.
That background has led her to learn more about how the body and mind respond to stress. She uses this understanding to help people recognise patterned reactions and to find different ways of coping. She also helps with relationship strain, career decisions and life transitions.
Other focus areas include postpartum depression, compassion fatigue, self-harm, discrimination and hoarding. Christine encourages people to try approaches that feel doable and relevant to their daily lives. Sessions are delivered from the United Kingdom and she works in English.
Her professional credential is BACP, which she holds alongside her clinical experience. To begin, clients follow the site process to match with a therapist and schedule sessions.
At a glance
- Years practising
- 13
- Registered with
- BACP
- Registration number
- 377834
- Languages
- English
- Approaches include
- Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Gottman Method
- How sessions happen
- Online, by video, phone or messages
Details are as listed on Christine's public professional profile. You can check any number with the professional body.
What Christine works with
Everything Christine lists, in their own terms.
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches Christine lists
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How Christine works online
She also uses elements of Trauma-Focused Therapy to address responses that come from past harm. This work helps people recognise how trauma affects thoughts, feelings and bodily reactions, and it aims to build ways of responding that reduce distress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christine will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together the person and therapist decide which methods to try and adjust them over time to match what is working.
Practical benefits of online therapy can include fitting sessions around work or caring responsibilities and reducing travel time. Online work can make it easier to have regular, shorter check-ins or to choose formats that match energy levels on any given day. Confirm the current session options before booking so you know what formats are available for scheduling.
Questions and answers
What kinds of issues does she help with?
She works with trauma and abuse, grief, depression and related emotional difficulties. Other areas include relationship strain, career concerns, compassion fatigue and self-esteem.
How does she approach therapy?
Her base is client-centred therapy, adapted to each person. She adds tools from cognitive behavioural and trauma-focused methods when they suit the client.
What experience does she bring?
She has 13 years' experience, including work with groups of adult survivors of historic abuse and one-to-one work with a wide variety of clients.
What are her credentials and location?
She is registered with BACP and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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