About Christina
Christina Azaredo works from a somatic and mind-body approach to help people with persistent pain and related emotional concerns. She is an AASW social worker with ten years' experience and brings her own lived experience of chronic pain into the room. Christina aims to create a calm, steady space where people feel seen and understood.
She focuses on how the body and nervous system hold stress, pain and difficult memories.
How Christina works
Christina will gently explore body sensations, personal history and current life factors to understand what is keeping symptoms going. She uses practical steps to reduce fear, build safety in the body and increase day-to-day coping skills. Christina commonly helps people who are living with chronic pain or medically unexplained symptoms.
She also supports people dealing with anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression and life changes. Her approach is relational and collaborative, and she works at a pace that suits each person. Her background includes a Master of Social Work and a Bachelor of Human Services, and she holds certifications in Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Mind-Body (TMS) Syndrome practice, and Embodied Processing.
Christina is completing a Diploma of Counselling to deepen her clinical skills. Early sessions focus on mapping what is happening and deciding together if the approach fits. The work often combines gentle body-based techniques with talk-based strategies so people can find relief and reconnect with things that matter to them.
What Christina works with
The areas below are the ones Christina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How mind-body approaches translate to online therapy
Christina draws on mind-body and somatic approaches that focus on the connection between body sensations and emotional experience. Pain Reprocessing Therapy looks at how the nervous system and brain may keep pain active and uses gradual, guided steps to reduce protective pain responses and fear. Embodied Processing and somatic techniques involve noticing body sensations, gentle movement or breath work, and linking those sensations to emotions to support regulation.Finding the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Christina will work with each person to choose what to try first, adjust methods as progress is made, and prioritise comfort and pacing. Goals and preferences guide whether more body-based work or talk-based strategies are used.
Practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into busy schedules and avoiding travel time, which can be especially helpful when pain or fatigue limits mobility. Online work can allow shorter check-ins between in-person visits or make it easier to maintain regular sessions during life changes. Because session formats are not specified in the biography, confirm current session options before booking so you know what is offered and how sessions will be delivered.
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