Cristina Jimenez, ACA

Cristina Jimenez is an ACA counsellor and psychotherapist who combines talk therapy with movement-based work. She brings five years of clinical experience and a calm, compassionate presence to sessions. Her style is warm and collaborative and she aims to help people feel safer in their bodies and clearer in their minds.

Cristina focuses on common difficulties such as anxiety, stress, depression, low self-esteem and relationship problems. She also supports people coping with trauma and abuse, and helps those living with chronic pain, illness or disability to manage the emotional side of health challenges. Cristina describes her approach as holistic, noticing how thought patterns and physical sensations connect.

Her background as a dancer and dance movement therapist means she often uses gentle body-based observations alongside conversation. She is a beginning-level student in Somatic Experiencing professional training and integrates somatic ideas without presenting them as a standalone promise of cure. Sessions are intended to be collaborative - the person sets goals and Cristina offers tools and ways to practise between meetings.

Cristina works with adults in individual counselling and welcomes diversity, including people from the LGBTIQ+ community. She communicates in English and brings an empathic, steady manner that helps people talk through difficult emotions. Practical skills, pacing and attention to the body are typical features of her sessions.

For people living with long-term health concerns, Cristina can help with the emotional impact of illness and caregiving stress, and support changes to daily routines that improve coping. To begin, follow the site’s Start Therapy process and complete the short matching questionnaire before scheduling.

Approaches that include the body and talk

Somatic-informed work focuses on bodily signals and simple movement to help people notice how emotions show up in the body. It is useful for trauma, anxiety and chronic pain where physical sensations are part of the difficulty.

Dance movement therapy uses movement and non-verbal expression alongside conversation to access feelings that can be hard to name. It can support emotional processing, self-awareness and reconnection to everyday activity.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Cristina works collaboratively to match techniques to a person’s needs and preferences, adjusting pace, homework and the balance between talk and movement as therapy progresses.

Practical benefits of online therapy can include easier scheduling, fitting sessions around work or caregiving, and shorter check-in conversations on busier days. The original biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm which online or in-person options are currently offered before booking. Appropriately qualified therapists can make these options fit everyday life while working steadily on goals.