Christine Howell

Christine Howell is a London-based integrative counsellor with ten years of experience supporting people through a wide range of emotional and mental health challenges. She works from the principle that the client is the expert of themselves, using her skills, experience and knowledge to address the issues presented in therapy.

Throughout a decade working in mental and emotional health and wellbeing, Christine has helped people struggling with anxiety, depression, identity concerns, family conflict, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem and grief. Over the past five years she has focused much of her practice on sexual abuse, including counselling non-abusing parents of children who have been sexually abused and working with primary, secondary and complex trauma, both recent and historic.

Her therapeutic style is warm, holding and interactive, and she aims to create a safe, consistent rapport that supports a healthy therapeutic alliance. Christine emphasises empathy, sensitivity and presence while working without judgement or bias, helping clients to clarify meaningful goals, gain insight and move forward even when therapy feels challenging.

As an integrative practitioner her approach is person-centred and combines cognitive-behavioural, humanistic, psychodynamic, transactional analysis, trauma-informed and solution-based methods. Treatment is tailored to each person’s unique needs and shaped by the presenting concerns and therapeutic goals.