Cristina Jimenez, ACA

Cristina Jimenez is an ACA-accredited Holistic Counsellor and Psychotherapist who brings a warm, compassionate presence to her work. She emphasizes an integrated approach that attends to both mind and body, creating a sense of safety and trust that supports clients through change and growth. Cristina combines empathy, steadiness, and collaborative partnership to help clients navigate emotional challenges and reach personal goals.

Cristina provides individual counselling for adults, addressing concerns such as depression, anxiety, grief and loss, trauma, interpersonal relationship difficulties, sexuality and intimacy, existential questions, and processes of self-exploration. Her practice also supports people working through issues around self-esteem, abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment and communication challenges, and caregiving stress, among others.

Alongside her counselling work, Cristina is a trained Dance Movement Therapist and draws on her extensive background in movement to access somatic information and promote healing. She has observed how subtle bodily cues can support recovery from trauma and deepen emotional insight. Cristina is also a beginning-level student in the Somatic Experiencing Professional Training, further developing her capacity to work with bodily sensations as part of therapeutic change.

Fluent in Spanish, Cristina welcomes people from diverse backgrounds, including those in the LGBTIQ+ community, and approaches each therapeutic relationship with respect and openness.