About Me
Hello and thank you for visiting my website.
My name is Cristina and I’m a Lincoln-based Integrative Child Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor with an Enhanced DBS Check and a passion for helping children, young people, young adults and adults make sense of things, develop more personal resilience and lead happier lives.
In private practice for ten years, I have nearly sixteen years of experience working therapeutically in a variety of areas and have worked cross-culturally with individuals, children and families from different backgrounds, needs and lived experiences. All these involvements coupled with highly diverse personal experiences (I’m a Black psychotherapist with mixed heritage who is multicultural and bilingual) enable me to keep open-minded, inclusive and adaptable in my work.
In my clinical supervisory practice I support clinical and non-clinical practitioners who work with families, children, adolescents, young adults and adults.
These are the therapy modalities I combine in my private practice:
* Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy and Counselling
* Attachment-based Psychotherapy
* Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
* Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
* Humanistic Psychotherapy and Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy
* Brain- and Trauma-informed Theories (e.g. NMT by Dr Bruce Perry)
* Social Neuroscience (e.g. Affect Regulation Theory and Polyvagal Theory)
* EMDR Therapy (Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing Therapy)
* Use of Embodied Approaches in Psychotherapy and Clinical Supervision
* Use of Creative Interventions (Sandtray, Art, Movement, Symbolic Interventions, Play, etc.)
What are my qualifications, certifications and registrations?
* Diploma in Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapy and Counselling Supervision (Terapia, London)
* Masters in Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Counselling (Terapia and Middlesex University, London)
* Certificate in the Foundations of Counselling and Psychotherapy (CCPE, London)
* Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Diploma (Lindum College, Lincoln)
* Graduate Certificate in Psychology (London Metropolitan University, London)
* Certificate in Assessment and Treatment of Dissociation in Children and Adolescents (BICTD in association with ESTD-UK and First Person Plural) (Huddersfield)
* Trained to use EMDR Therapy with children, adolescents, young adults and adults (EMDR Academy, London and Leeds)
* Registration with the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
* Psychological Therapist Membership with BAATN (The Black, African and Asian Therapy Network)
* Professional Membership with Donor Conception Network (DCN)
*Registration with the ICO (Information Commissioner's Office)