About Cristina
Cristina Jimenez is an ACA counsellor who brings five years of clinical experience to her practice. She combines a whole-person focus that honours thoughts and bodily experience. Cristina aims to create calm and steady sessions where adults can talk through anxiety, depression, stress and relationship concerns.
Cristina works with people who have experienced trauma and abuse, and those coping with grief and loss. She also supports people with self-esteem challenges, attachment questions and difficulties around sexuality and intimacy.
Background and approach
Her background in dance movement therapy gives her extra ways to notice how feelings show up in the body. Her style is warm, present and collaborative. She listens first, then helps clients set small, practical steps.
Sessions are paced to the person and can include talking, movement awareness and grounding exercises. Cristina values creating safety and trust so clients can explore hard memories and patterns. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside somatic work to help people feel more regulated and able to cope.
She works in Australia and offers online sessions by video, phone, chat or messaging. Cristina speaks English and carries the ACA credential, which she uses as part of her professional identity.
Approaches that combine talk and body work online
Two approaches Cristina uses are somatic-informed work and trauma-aware talk therapy. Somatic-informed work pays attention to physical sensations and movement to help people notice how emotions show up in the body; it can be useful for anxiety, stress and trauma recovery. Trauma-aware talk therapy focuses on gradually processing difficult memories and building coping skills, often using short, manageable steps adapted to the person's pace.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cristina will help clients choose methods that match their needs and goals. She discusses options together and adjusts techniques over time, aiming for a collaborative plan rather than a fixed protocol.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video lets a therapist observe facial cues and movement, phone sessions work well when less bandwidth is needed, and chat or messaging can fit quick check-ins or days when typing feels easier. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules and for people who prefer not to travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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