Christine Asikuru, BACP

Christine Asikuru welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed or uncertain about relationships and other life stresses. She is a BACP counsellor with nine years' experience and speaks English. Christine aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where someone can talk about what is worrying them and begin to make sense of their feelings.

In sessions she listens closely and helps people spot the patterns behind difficult emotions. Conversations focus on understanding how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together, and on small changes that make day-to-day life easier. She works with concerns such as anxiety, low mood, grief, stress and self-esteem, and with relationship and family worries including attachment and abandonment issues.

Her background includes seven years in educational settings offering one-to-one and group counselling to students and parents. She also runs a independent practice in North London and has carried out work supporting first responders and caregivers with the strains they face. Her experience covers trauma and abuse, eating and body-image concerns, ADHD-related worries, and compassion fatigue.

Christine’s core training is person-centred, and she blends other methods to fit each person. That can mean talking through thinking patterns using cognitive behaviour ideas, working on emotions, or trying mindfulness and acceptance strategies. She encourages practical steps people can try between sessions to build inner strength and cope better.

To begin, she asks people to describe their current difficulty and goals so sessions can be shaped around what matters most. The focus is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs, with attention to clear, straightforward tools that help in everyday life.

How Christine’s approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match values. It can help with anxiety, low mood and recurring relationship worries. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on being heard and accepted; that supportive stance helps people feel safer talking about painful topics. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns and manage symptoms.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christine will talk with each person about their goals and try different ways of working to see what fits best. This is a collaborative process and adjustments can be made as therapy progresses so the method matches the client’s needs and preferences.

The biography lists a mixture of session types used in her practice, but please confirm the current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. They can also help people keep therapy going if they are living further from the practice or balancing work and caring responsibilities.