Christine Porter, BACP

Christine Porter is a counsellor who uses a client-centred approach to help people through midlife shifts and other life changes. She holds BACP and brings four years of practice experience to conversations about relationships, grief and stress. Her style is warm and approachable and she aims to create a space where clients can speak honestly and be heard.

Her work focuses on practical steps as well as emotional support. She asks what a person wants from counselling and then shapes sessions around those goals. Christine combines client-centred listening with solution-focused tools to help people move towards clearer choices and small, steady changes.

Christine works with concerns such as anxiety, low mood, self-esteem and anger. She also supports people affected by relationship strain, communication problems, separation and caregiving pressures. Additional focus areas include abandonment, aging issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, chronic illness and disability, fertility matters and loneliness.

Sessions involve collaboration. Christine describes therapy as teamwork in which she shares tools and the client brings their lived experience. She pays attention to faith and personal values when these matter to a client, and she encourages practical actions between meetings to test what helps.

People who prefer a counsellor who listens without judgement and helps them try focused, goal-oriented steps often find her approach helpful. She is based in the United Kingdom and offers work in English for people who want support during life transitions.

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-Centred Therapy places the client at the heart of the process. The counsellor listens closely, reflects what matters to the client and follows their pace. This approach helps when people need space to make sense of difficult feelings during life transitions.

Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, achievable steps. Sessions emphasise clear goals, what is already working and simple experiments to try between meetings. This is helpful for people wanting practical ways to move forward from stress, low mood or relationship difficulties.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Christine will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then she and the client decide together on methods to try. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust the plan if something is not helping.

Check which session formats are currently offered before booking, as the biography does not list formats. Online therapy can make it simpler to fit counselling into a busy week, avoid travel time and keep appointments that slot into work or caregiving routines. It can also allow shorter check-ins when that suits a client better, and it removes the need to be on camera if that feels difficult.