Christine Howell, BACP

Christine Howell is a London-based integrative counsellor with ten years of experience supporting people through a wide range of emotional and life challenges. She works from the belief that each person is the expert on their own life, and combines professional skill, lived experience and clinical knowledge to help clients address issues such as anxiety, depression, identity questions, family conflict, relationship strain, low self-esteem and grief.

Over the past five years Christine has developed a concentrated practice in sexual abuse work, including specialist support for non-abusing parents of children who have been sexually abused, and therapeutic care for primary, secondary and complex trauma whether recent or historic. Her approach is shaped by an understanding of how trauma affects people and by a commitment to compassion, sensitivity and presence when navigating difficult material.

Christine describes her therapeutic style as warm, holding and interactive, aiming to build a consistent rapport that becomes the foundation for meaningful change. As an integrative practitioner she draws on a person-centered framework and blends cognitive-behavioural, humanistic, psychodynamic, transactional analysis, trauma-informed and solution-focused methods to tailor treatment to each individual. She holds the BACP credential, indicating professional accreditation with a recognised UK counselling body, and uses that training to offer bespoke support geared to clients' specific needs and goals.