Hi, I’m Christine.

I am a Counselling Psychotherapist (MIACP). I see adults for 1-2-1 sessions in Counselling and Psychotherapy in person and also online.

I am also a Wellbeing Life Coach and my ‘My Kind of Life’ programme is designed for those who want more time, renewed energy, better relationships, and a more balanced and fulfilling life.

Do I want Psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy helps clients to relieve emotional distress, seek solutions to problems in their lives, and to unpack cognitive distortions and unhelpful behaviours that are preventing them from finding contentment, working productively, and enjoying personal relationships.

I help clients with feelings of anxiety, loneliness, depression, anger, trauma, and stress. I also help clients who are navigating life changes, and relationship problems or who are working to overcome past issues that are blocking present joy.

 

Or is it Wellbeing Life Coaching I am looking for? 

Wellbeing Life Coaching supports clients to not only set goals but to also find the motivation and tools to get to their physical and emotional health objectives in a positive, forward-focused, fun, and supportive environment.

I can help you build a life more aligned with your core values and beliefs, highlighting your strengths and uniqueness to create a life that is full of joy, purposeful, forward-focused, and, most importantly, yours.

My work is focused on guiding you as you return to who you truly are. 

Testimonials

What my clients Say

Don't just take my word for it! Here is what some of my previous clients have to say about their work with me:


Enrolling in Christine’s My Kind of Life programme was honestly the best thing I have ever done for my mental health – my head is the clearest it has been in years. I had tried talk therapy before and while I found it good, I was fed up of talking and felt like I wanted […]

- Georgina


My experience working with Christine has been extremely positive. I first came to Christine with a lack of purpose in my life. I felt stuck where I was and I knew that I wasn’t living the life that I wanted to. Christine provided great support while I was making changes to my mindset and was always […]

- Anna


I booked an appointment with Christine on the advice of my doctor. I wanted a stronger antidepressant but got a talking to from my doctor about taking the time to go to a new therapist. I had been to therapy before but it was like putting a plaster on a wound that needed stitches. I still […]

- Client Nov 2022


Thank you for the time we spent working together and how much it has helped me. It is something I will always be grateful for. The tools you gave me and the things you taught me are invaluable and I’ve applied them in so many situations since and have had a very different outcome to […]

- Jen


As a person who had previously attended therapy and never wanted to return, when I started with Christine my whole view on therapy changed. Christine’s positivity and incredible insight really showed me how to challenge my negative thoughts and build a self-care plan that suits me. I am so lucky to have worked with Christine […]

- Tara


As a mid 50’s male I knew that, despite outwards appearances of being successful in life, I had taken the eye off the ball on my own health and wellbeing. Christine’s My Kind of Life four sessions spread over eight weeks has been truly life changing for me. Christine is very good at getting under […]

- Peter M


I can honestly say Christine has helped me both on a personal level and professionally.  She taught me about setting boundaries professionally which gave me great relief when I put those into practice. Time is always on my side now and I feel fabulous and so grateful for taking the time out to go on […]

- MB


Working with Christine over the past year has been truly life changing for me. I first came to Christine at a very vulnerable time in my life when I felt lost and without purpose. From our very first session Christine cultivated a safe, non-judgemental, and honest environment where I felt truly heard. Her realistic approach […]

- Roisin


Working with Christine over our four 1-2-1 sessions has truly been transformative to my well-being and rediscovering my authentic self.  After each session, Christine sends you a personalised summary of your session with a plan and goals for you to work on for the next session. Working with Christine empowered me to recognise my self-doubts, […]

- Danielle


Working with Christine has taught me so much. This work has helped me live intentionally, to forgive and accept myself for who I am. She has helped me live a life with gentleness, kindness and true to my core values

- Jess


Christine’s approach was soft & gentle yet extremely supportive & encouraging. She helped me realise that my lack of clarity on what I truly wanted was causing me to become distracted by what was going on around me & by what others were doing. Before working with Christine I was placing responsibility in/on others within […]

- Kate


My sessions with Christine have allowed me to focus on what is most important, and my time and life management have become so much better….. These sessions have massively lightened the load. I was one that really would not have believed in these kinds of methods. I would’ve dismissed it as a kind of whimsical […]

- Dylan

1-2-1 Work with Christine

I offer both counselling psychotherapy and wellbeing life coaching to adults. My therapeutic style is compassion focused, goal oriented and positively challenging.

 
 

Purchase Our Journals

Self-Reflect is a journal I designed for you. Each page has a date prompt for you to fill - inviting you to journal only on the days that are right for you. Throughout the journal you will find pops of positivity that I hope you love and at the start of the journal there is a space for your personal self-care affirmation. Enjoy x

 

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Thrilled and honoured to become an official member of @rotaryclubofwexford today.

The motto of Rotary is “Service above Self” and is a space where members come together to take action to create lasting change in our communities and in ourselves.

I am very grateful also for the time offered to me to introduce the club to @colourherway_ which I founded with @amy__murray. Together we look forward to exploring how these two wonderful communities can grow and support each other in the future. 

A special thank you to Niall @graphediadesign who first invited me to Rotary and to our wonderful president @natwex for her limitless generosity, thoughtfulness and professionalism. 

And on a personal note, my dad was a founding member of the club and I have many fond memories of joining him in his rotary duties from Christmas hampers to raising money for the building of schools in Africa.  I look forward to creating similar memories with my children, although currently they are not quite so enthused 😝
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I mean I know many love a new notebook, I mean who wouldn’t love a new notebook, but there is just something about the prospect of clean pages, a fresh start, a chance for a clean slate that a new notebook offers that makes it so appealing to many autistic adults. 

This is also autism
Note: I use also autism a lot to highlight the (adult) (late discovery) side of autism that there is not so much awareness of. Also autism does not in any way other me from autistic people but on the contrary is implied to welcome the many hidden faces of autism. 

AND… if you are looking for a new notebook, I happen to have my very own Self Reflect Notebook for sale on my site - link in bio xx

#autism #autismawareness #audhd #thisisalsoautism #adhd
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I just don’t get chit chat. 

I can do it … I’ve learnt what people mean when they ask about your weekend, and I know the expected response. I just find it all a bit, well, sad, and meaningless. 

We pretend we care by asking but really it’s just a socially approved way of playing ‘nice’. 
Why do we need these false pretences? Why can’t we be real-life nice? 

I love connection. I like to give and receive connection. To me, chit-chat feels like superficial breadcrumbs when I am craving the full sliced pan. 

This is also autism. 

#autism #autismawareness #audhd #thisisalsoautism #adhd #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent
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MENTAL CHATTER 💬
The most persistent and noticeable trait of my AuDHD (Autism & ADHD) is mental chatter. 

Constant, non stop, overlapping thoughts with more thoughts, interspersed with song lyrics from earlier that day, and often a pie-in-the-sky-maybe-it-could-be-amazing  invention thrown in, a joke I remember that has me laugh out loud in the middle of a quiet not-appropriate-to-laugh moment.

Over and over, never ending mental chatter. 

Mental chatter is different from negative thoughts .. my mental chatter is mostly positive. It’s just constant.. it’s me being three conversations ahead .. it’s the difficulty I face trying to sleep .. or meditate.. or be. 

Mental chatter is different from anxiety in that it’s rarely anything I’m worried about, just stuff my mind wants to keep thinking about. 

But I don’t 
I want it to stop
To quieten
To have a moment of peace

There are a few things that offer me this peace from chatter. The moments post exercise, as I stretch and creak, as my body groans and grumbles, as I feel spent and satisfied. 

In that moment I feel zen. 
In that moment the chatter doesn’t need to say anything. 
In that moment I feel peace.

#actuallyautistic #autismawareness #autismlife #latediagnosedautistic #thisisalsoautism #audhd
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If I had known undiluted joy, laughing with abandon, with tears streaming and the occasional snort thrown in were whispers of autistic joy I would have seen myself much sooner.

For me autism is authenticity, deep feeling, a sensitivity to the world, an intensity of experience and emotion. 

Sometimes this is hard. 

And sometimes this is pure joy, a joy I feel is sacred and a privilege of the autist.

I’d love to feel less and I’d hate to feel less. 

#actuallyautistic #autismawareness #autismlife #latediagnosedautistic
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Togetherness
Thats where the beauty is
For all who reached out to share with me, and now with others who really need to hear these words, thank you. 
Autistic people are my kinda people - non autistics too - but autistic people - you feel like home to me.

#autismawareness #actuallyautistic #thisiswhatautismlookslike #thisisalsoautism #neurodivergent #neuroaffirming #neurodiversity #autismadvocate