Christopher "Chris" Rice, BACP

Christopher "Chris" Rice offers counselling from a client-focused viewpoint. He brings four years of experience supporting people with anxiety, low mood and life transitions. Chris uses approachable language and a calm manner to help people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.

He draws on client-centred therapy to listen without judgement and to help people reflect on their experience. Chris also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, applying practical techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and change routines that maintain distress. Sessions aim to mix listening with exercises you can try between meetings.

People come with concerns such as stress, grief, sleep problems, addictions and issues around self-esteem and motivation. He also works with worries tied to relationships, money, work and purpose. Additional areas he pays attention to include abandonment, commitment and communication problems.

Chris has supported people who live with chronic pain, long-term illness and neurological conditions such as autism, ADHD and traumatic brain injury. He describes his role as offering steady support while helping clients develop clearer ways of coping day to day.

Practical steps are encouraged in sessions. That can mean testing small behavioural changes, learning ways to manage anxious thinking, or planning steady improvements to sleep and routine. Chris aims to help people take the next manageable step towards feeling better.

How his approaches can work online

Chris uses client-centred therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy in straightforward ways. Client-centred work focuses on listening and understanding your experience, helping you to feel heard and to make sense of feelings. Cognitive behavioural therapy involves identifying unhelpful thinking and testing small changes in behaviour to reduce anxiety and low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. He will work with you to decide which methods fit your goals and preferences. That collaborative planning helps shape sessions around what you need to try and learn between meetings.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so please confirm available session types before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit meetings into busy days, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also support steady practice of CBT techniques between sessions, so tools learned in meetings can be used in everyday life.