Christopher Atkinson, NCPS

Christopher Atkinson is a counsellor registered as NCPS in the United Kingdom with 14 years of professional experience. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and anger. He also supports those coping with addictions, relationship and intimacy difficulties, parenting strains, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar issues.

Christopher uses a client-centred way of working. That means sessions focus on the person's experience and priorities. He treats the client as the expert on their life and follows their lead while offering steady, practical support.

In conversation he helps people name what is happening and try out different ways to respond. Sessions can include talking through recent events, looking at patterns that fuel frustration, and practising calmer responses. He also addresses related problems like sleep disruption, overwhelm, and strained relationships that often make anger worse.

Christopher has worked across a range of situations over his career. That experience includes supporting people through grief, trauma, addiction concerns, and long-term health challenges. He also lists additional focus areas such as attachment issues, adoption and foster-care related matters, and caregiver stress.

People who want straightforward, person-led counselling tend to do well with his approach. He encourages practical steps that fit into everyday life, and he helps clients decide what changes to try next. To begin, prospective clients use the site's matching process to set up a first session.

Client-centred approaches and online counselling