Christopher Poole
Practical counselling for real-life stresses
About Christopher
Christopher Poole is a counsellor who focuses on practical, evidence-based ways to help people feel steadier and more able to cope. He works with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and depression. Christopher aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people can talk and start making small changes.
Christopher has four years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. He adapts conversations and plans to each person’s needs rather than using one fixed approach.
Background and approach
That means sessions are shaped around what matters most to the individual and the goals they want to reach. In sessions he helps people manage relationship difficulties, family problems and parenting strains. He also supports people with anger, career worries, and coping with big life changes.
Practical topics such as communication problems, money stress and feelings of isolation are addressed in straightforward ways. Christopher also works with issues like guilt and shame, forgiveness, fatherhood challenges and questions about life purpose. He aims to boost motivation, confidence and everyday coping skills so people can move forward from hard times.
His way of working is collaborative and gentle. He listens to understand, offers clear suggestions, and helps people try things between sessions. The focus is on steady progress and finding what helps each person feel more capable and hopeful.
What Christopher works with
Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online
Many evidence-based techniques focus on changing thoughts and behaviours to reduce distress. These approaches involve identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, testing them in everyday life and building new coping skills for anxiety, low mood and stress. They are useful for practical problems like sleep, worry and motivation.Other effective techniques target processing loss and strong emotions. These methods help people make sense of grief, trauma and painful memories by working at a pace that feels manageable. They can support recovery from difficult events and help restore a sense of direction and purpose.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with the person to decide what fits best based on their goals, preferences and what they find most helpful. Sessions are collaborative and may combine different techniques over time to meet changing needs.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when meeting in person is hard, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options give flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy going around everyday life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
