Christina Azaredo

Christina Azaredo brings a mind-body, somatic approach to therapy that helps people understand how their body and emotions interact. She is an AASW social worker with ten years of experience. Christina writes simply and listens closely to what each person says and shows in their body.

She often supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief and depression. She also helps those struggling with self-esteem, body image, and life changes. Christina pays attention to patterns that started in a person's family of origin and to issues like isolation, guilt, and shame.

Christina’s practice pays special attention to chronic pain and medically unexplained symptoms. She describes how pain can persist even after an injury heals and works with clients to gently address nervous system patterns that keep pain going. Her own lived experience with chronic pain informs how she hears and supports others in similar situations.

Sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual. Christina uses somatic methods and mind-body techniques to help people feel safer in their bodies, reduce fear, and build self-compassion. She blends these with talk-based work to help people make changes in daily life.

Her background includes a Master of Social Work and related clinical certificates, and she is continuing professional training. Christina focuses on practical steps, emotional regulation, and helping people reconnect to a sense of purpose and belonging.

How Christina’s approaches translate to online therapy

Christina uses mind-body and somatic methods alongside gentle talk therapy. Mind-body techniques focus on how thoughts and feelings relate to bodily sensations, helping people notice patterns that keep pain or anxiety active. Somatic work includes simple body-attuned practices and breath or movement awareness to calm the nervous system and reduce reactivity.

She also draws on parts-informed ideas to help people name and work with different aspects of themselves. This work helps with shame, perfectionism, and self-criticism by creating steps to respond differently to internal voices rather than react automatically.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Christina will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then try methods that suit their situation. She adjusts pacing and technique as trust and safety grow, and looks for practical ways to practice changes between sessions.

Session formats are not specified in the original biography, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow pick-up of short check-ins when needed. It also lets people try approaches that involve gentle body attention while still meeting from their own routine environment.