“Warm and genuine, felt you really cared.”
“Actually helped, didn’t just sit and listen.”
“Helped me see things differently.”
“I was able to get my problems aired and put them in perspective.”
“It really changed how I felt about my future.”
“I was surprised how much it helped just being able to tell my story.”
“…has really helped me see things clearer and I feel more at peace with myself than before.”
Chris is very understanding and this reflects in her style of counselling, which is not clinical in the slightest but open and warm. She creates a feeling of calmness when you have your sessions and is very down to earth with the added bonus of making you laugh, which made the whole process of counselling all the more easier than what I thought it would be.
Counselling can be difficult to process the many aspects that life can throw your way, but I am in a much better place from whence Chris found me. I will miss my sessions with Chris, sometimes beautiful people can fall into your life and Chris is one of those spirits.
Thank you, Chris, for helping me leave all the suitcases at the station and making my journey ahead so much lighter.
When I was introduced to Chris I was at an all time low….Chris is a wonderful listener and remembers everything her patient tells her – she shows empathy, she shows genuine concern… I would absolutely recommend Chris to anyone.
I would like to thank you for our counselling sessions I have gotten a great deal out of them, I can not express how much better I feel and how I am dealing with everyday life and how I look at different situations differently, I am free of all the baggage I had stored in my head that was making me stressed, anxious and angry.
Thank you for giving me my life back Chris, and providing me with the emotional tools to get better by means of your natural, organic, humanistic approach and guidance, your compassion, your encouragement, your empathetic approach. Thank you for wrapping me in a warm cosy blanket of emotional security and helping me to remember what a good person I’ve been and still am! My sessions with you were a pleasure and absolutely life changing and I’m so glad I found you….sending my heartfelt appreciation to the magical Chris Cullen.
Thank you so much for this year though Chris. I don’t know where my head would have been without you just hearing me. I appreciate having had your time so much.
For the first time in my life, I felt seen, I felt heard, I felt as though I existed. For the last three years or so I have been having sessions with Chris, to say she’s changed my life would be an understatement. I have been in and out of services…not one of them as come close to doing even half the work Chris has. I recently finished my sessions with her and to say what I learned will stay with me for life is another understatement, should there be an afterlife I would carry it there with me too. There are once in a lifetime people, you can live for 100 years and meet a handful of these people and Chris is one of them, for this first time in 20 years, which is well over half of my life I can see that I am a good person. I am worthy. I am valid and I am valued.
From the first friendly phone call that you made to introduce yourself to me I instantly felt comfortable and felt like “this could actually work” especially after my unsatisfactory robotic experience with another counselling service (sorry) that actually made me feel more anxious!
You are such a warm compassionate and genuinely caring person. The most important thing to me is that you actually listened, really listened to me when at a time in my life I did need to be listened to but was completely ignored. I will be honest and say that I am not the most talkative person but with your help and understanding you gave me the confidence to talk. Sometimes I think it was hard for you to get a word in!
At times when I was explaining certain issues that were really bothering me or holding me back you just completely understood me and I felt that you felt my pain too but not once did you ever judge me even when I must have repeated myself many times.
You have given me the confidence to go forward and get my life back on track. The techniques we used in our sessions will stay with me for life and I’m so grateful that you taught me how to ground myself through breathing and distraction when I feel overwhelmed.
Chris was a constant in my life whilst I felt I had none. She was there for me continuously as I faced each smaller stage of the events happening in my life – and continues to be there for me. I have no doubt that it is with Chris’ support why I am still here today.
I will be forever grateful for the love, care and support you have shown me. The sessions have done me the world of good and I am very happy to have had the opportunity to meet you!
My counselling experience with Chris can be described as nothing but simply empowering. Chris held space wonderfully for me throughout the journey and I consider myself blessed to have landed in her care. I leave Chris with much work still to do but with so much more inner strength, understanding, grace, joy and resilience to guide me, permanent growth and healing. Without a doubt I would return to Chris in the future, should I feel the need. Thank you, Chris, for the gift of your guidance.
Empathetic, unwaveringly kind, and understanding are just some of the words I would use to describe Christine Cullen. When I needed counselling I was lucky enough to fall into Christine’s orbit, and she helped me when I felt both helpless and hopeless. I would highly recommend Christine to anyone in need of help.
Warm, empathic, kind, clear, patient and a totally good egg. Can’t thank Chris enough for her guidance through my journey 
Feel totally blessed to have found her help.
Chris is an extremely good listener. It was comfortable and easy to ‘tell my stories’ without interruption and fear of judgement. She knows exactly when and how to intervene, to seek clarity and understanding, and to further explore and / or reinforce factors of importance. Her recall of details is impressive, as she often referred back to matters discussed many sessions prior when there was a need to do so.
She communicates with ease, as if having a comfortable chat at the bus stop – it doesn’t feel like you’re having a ‘session’. She drew on complex psychology theory at times where there was a need to identify an issue, but communicated this so simply and used relatable analogies, appropriate to my personality which she clearly showed an understanding of.
I have never had counselling before and have learned the value of being able to open up to an independent third-party with the right skills to listen, probe, challenge and really support me to reach my resolution in such way that the answers are found by me. Not given to me. This is really important, I feel.
I would recommend Chris to anyone who is wrestling with negative emotions, who needs to find ways to refocus their outlook and shift their mindset towards positivity and proactivity.
Can’t thank you enough, Chris. This has been a great investment of time and worth every penny!
