Cristina Jimenez, ACA

Cristina Jimenez is an ACA-accredited holistic counsellor and psychotherapist who brings a warm, compassionate presence to her work. She focuses on addressing both mind and body, creating a sense of safety and trust that supports collaborative therapeutic partnerships. Cristina draws on empathy and steady presence to help adults explore emotional difficulties and make meaningful changes.

She specialises in individual counselling for issues such as depression, anxiety, grief and loss, trauma and abuse, relationship difficulties, sexuality and intimacy, existential concerns, and self-exploration. Her practice also attends to related areas including stress, self-esteem and interpersonal challenges, with additional experience supporting people with attachment, adoption and foster care matters, ageing concerns, neurodiversity, chronic pain and caregiver stress.

Alongside her counselling and psychotherapy work, Cristina is a trained Dance Movement Therapist whose background in dance informs a somatic way of working. She has witnessed how small, bodily cues can support recovery from trauma and facilitate deeper self-awareness. Cristina is also a beginning-level student in the SE™ (Somatic Experiencing) Professional Training, further developing skills in body-focused approaches to healing. She embraces diversity and welcomes individuals from a range of backgrounds, including members of the LGBTIQ+ community.

Somatic and Movement Approaches for Online Therapy

Cristina applies a mind-body perspective in her work, using approaches that attend to both bodily experience and emotional processing. Dance Movement Therapy uses movement and the body as a way to explore feelings, improve self-awareness and support recovery from trauma and emotional difficulties. It can be useful for people who find somatic or non-verbal ways of working helpful in addition to talk-based therapy.

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-oriented approach that focuses on natural processes of regulation and recovery from stress and trauma; Cristina is a beginning-level student in the SE™ Professional Training and integrates this training into her holistic practice where appropriate. These approaches aim to help clients notice bodily signals and develop new ways to respond to overwhelming experiences.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process, and Cristina works collaboratively with clients to identify what best suits their needs, goals and preferences. She will help decide whether movement-based work, somatic techniques or more conventional psychotherapeutic methods are appropriate, and may suggest referral to appropriately qualified or registered professionals when needed. Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging make it easier to fit counselling into busy lives and support ongoing access to therapy across different circumstances.