Christina Azaredo, AASW

Christina Azaredo uses mind-body and somatic approaches to help people understand and reduce persistent pain and emotional distress. She is an AASW social worker with ten years' experience. Christina writes plainly and focuses on building safety, steady pacing, and practical steps clients can use between sessions.

Her practice centres on exploring how the body and nervous system relate to symptoms. Christina helps people notice bodily signals and gentle patterns that keep pain or anxiety active. She explains connections simply and offers hands-on strategies for calming the nervous system and responding differently to distress.

Christina brings both professional and lived experience with chronic pain to her work. That background informs a respectful, curious approach when people feel exhausted by medical pathways or unsure why symptoms continue. She aims to reduce isolation and rebuild a sense of safety in the body and life.

Sessions begin with one or two meetings to map out what is happening and to see if her ways of working fit. Therapy moves at the client’s pace and combines body-based practices, reflective conversation and targeted exercises to manage stress, anxiety, grief and mood changes.

Christina also supports people dealing with attachment questions, family of origin issues, body image, obsessive-compulsive patterns, post-traumatic stress and life transitions. She emphasises self-compassion, practical steps, and steady progress rather than quick fixes.

How mind-body work adapts to online therapy

Christina draws primarily on Pain Reprocessing Therapy and somatic, embodied processing work. Pain Reprocessing Therapy helps people learn how the brain and nervous system contribute to ongoing pain and guides gentle retraining of those patterns. Somatic and embodied processing focus on bodily signals and movement to reduce tension and build a calmer nervous system.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Christina will work together with each person to identify which techniques suit their needs, goals and tolerance for body-based practices. The plan evolves from early conversations and trial sessions so people can see what feels most helpful.

The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around work, health appointments and caregiving, and it can allow for shorter check-ins or sessions without needing to travel. It also supports continuing therapy when managing chronic pain or mobility limits, while still enabling collaborative, evidence-informed work with an appropriately qualified therapist.