About Chris
Chris Rottcher is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship strain and self-esteem issues. He also supports those coping with grief, addictions, parenting challenges, ADHD and life changes. He works in English and Afrikaans and is based in the United Kingdom.
Chris aims for straightforward, genuine conversation in sessions. He listens closely and helps clients feel understood. Over time, many people find it easier to speak more openly and to look more deeply at painful memories.
Background and approach
He uses an integrative style that draws on different ways of working. That means sessions might focus on relationships, how the body holds emotion, and creating meaning in life. The work can include looking back at earlier hurts and also practical steps for today.
Chris describes his work around four themes - relating to others, the body, meaning-making and personal agency. He pays attention to how emotions show up physically and how patterns in relationships repeat. He also helps people reflect on choices so they can act with more awareness.
Clients may explore trauma, attachment issues, dissociation, eating concerns, codependency and a wide range of life stresses. Chris has seven years of professional experience and holds the NCPS credential. He welcomes international clients and uses video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging for sessions.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability. Sessions are arranged via a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
This counsellor commonly uses Attachment-Based Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in online work. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and behaviour and can help with trust, closeness and repeated relationship patterns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and help manage anxiety and stress.He treats approach selection as a collaborative process. During early sessions he will talk with the client about goals and preferences and together they will choose methods that fit the person's needs and pace. The aim is to try things out and adapt what is helpful as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quick check-in and text-based messaging suits shorter, written reflection. These options make it simpler to fit counselling around work, family and travel commitments while still working with a registered or accredited professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Afrikaans
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