Christina Azaredo, AASW

Christina Azaredo is an AASW social worker who focuses on thoughts and everyday habits that shape how people feel. She combines mind-body ideas with practical conversation to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief and changes in life. Christina writes plainly and keeps sessions calm and steady so people can feel heard and understood.

She brings ten years of clinical experience and a background in social work to her practice. Her approach pays attention to the body as well as thoughts, and she uses techniques that aim to ease nervous system activation and reduce unhelpful patterns. This can be useful for ongoing low mood, social anxiety, rumination, or difficulties with self-esteem.

Christina has worked a great deal with people living with chronic pain and medically unexplained symptoms. She understands how confusing it can be when pain outlasts medical treatment, and she helps people explore how thoughts, habits and the nervous system can keep pain circuits active. Sessions also cover grief, life changes, attachment and issues like shame or isolation.

Her style is collaborative and paced to each person. Early sessions focus on understanding what’s happening and deciding together whether the approach fits. Practical goals might include changing everyday habits, building self-compassion, and learning simple body-based strategies to ease tension.

Christina works in Australia and conducts therapy in English. She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be cancelled at any time, and she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.

How mind-body approaches translate to online therapy

Christina draws on evidence-based techniques that attend to both thinking patterns and the body. Pain Reprocessing-oriented work focuses on understanding how brain and nervous system patterns can maintain pain, and uses guided exercises and gentle inquiry to shift those patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify values and build small consistent actions that fit their life goals.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the person to identify which methods suit their needs, goals and comfort. Together they will set practical steps and check progress, adjusting the method as needed rather than assuming one path from the start.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking since specific formats are not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also supports practical work such as guided breathing, in-the-moment reflection and habit-change tasks that can be practised between sessions.