Christina Azaredo

Christina Azaredo is an AASW social worker with ten years' experience who works with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression and major life changes. She combines mind-body and somatic ideas with relational, person-centred care to support people wondering what comes next. Christina's practice also includes work on life purpose, chronic pain, and attachment-related difficulties.

Christina draws on her own experience of chronic pain as part of her perspective. That lived experience informs how she listens and how she helps people make sense of symptoms that feel invisible or misunderstood. She talks plainly about the overlap between body and brain and how patterns of pain can persist even after an injury has healed.

Sessions begin with one or two meetings to understand the current problem and decide whether this approach fits. Christina moves at a client's pace and focuses on developing greater safety in the nervous system, reducing fear, and increasing self-compassion. She describes the work as relational and collaborative rather than directive.

Her clinical toolkit includes pain reprocessing ideas, mind-body practices, embodied processing, parts-informed methods, acceptance and commitment principles, motivational interviewing and nervous system regulation. These are used to address chronic pain, medical uncertainty, trauma, grief and complex emotional patterns.

People often come for help with identity shifts after diagnosis, the fatigue of repeated medical appointments, isolation, perfectionism, avoidance, and rumination. Christina supports conversations about meaning and life purpose alongside practical strategies for managing symptoms and stronger emotional regulation.

How Christina applies mind-body and somatic methods online

Christina uses pain reprocessing ideas to help people understand how the brain and nervous system can keep pain patterns active. This involves learning how thoughts, emotions and body sensations interact, and using gentle practices to reduce threat and reframe pain responses. It is often used for persistent pain and medically unexplained symptoms.

She also draws on embodied processing and somatic techniques that focus on bodily sensation and nervous system regulation. These methods help when anxiety, trauma or chronic stress show up in the body rather than only in thoughts. They aim to build a sense of safety in the body and reduce protective tension.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work. Christina treats the selection of techniques as collaborative. She will explore your goals, preferences and what feels manageable, then adapt the mix of mind-body, parts-informed and acceptance-based tools to suit your needs.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, as these are not specified here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit meetings around work, medical appointments and family commitments. They also allow for shorter check-ins or sessions without video when bandwidth is limited. If you prefer face-to-face options or specific formats, check current session choices before scheduling.