Christina MacLeod

About Christina MacLeod

Christina has been part of our team for five years and brings a warm, compassionate and down-to-earth approach to therapy. With an easy-going nature and a good sense of humour, she aims to create a space where you can truly be yourself, feel deeply listened to and, when helpful, gently challenged.

Christina particularly enjoys working with people who experience emotions intensely, feel overwhelmed by their reactions or find themselves repeating patterns they don’t fully understand. Perhaps you know what you want or can make sense of your difficulties intellectually, yet in the moment your emotions seem to take over. You might find yourself feeling things deeply, worrying about rejection, struggling in relationships or questioning why certain situations affect you so much.

You might be neurodivergent, highly sensitive or shaped by difficult earlier experiences. Perhaps you struggle with your sense of identity, find yourself adapting to what others need or feel confused by the gap between how you want to respond and what actually happens. You don’t need to arrive at therapy with a diagnosis or a clear understanding of what you’re finding challenging. Christina offers a space to slow things down, get curious and begin to unravel what’s happening beneath the surface, without reducing your experiences to a label or putting you in a box.

Christina has a particular interest in supporting autistic women, including those exploring their neurodivergence later in life. She recognises that years of masking, feeling misunderstood or adapting to others’ expectations can sometimes make it difficult to recognise your own needs, trust your feelings or feel comfortable being yourself. Therapy can offer an opportunity to explore these experiences and develop a deeper understanding and acceptance of who you are.

Working from a person-centred foundation, Christina draws on emotional processing, somatic awareness and practical skills from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). Together, you can explore not only what you’re thinking, but what you’re feeling, how your body responds and how past experiences and relationships may have shaped your patterns. Alongside developing insight, therapy can become a place to experiment with new ways of responding and gradually experience things differently.

Christina has a particular interest in emotional regulation, neurodivergence, self-esteem, identity and relational patterns. She believes that meaningful change comes not only from understanding ourselves intellectually, but from developing new experiences of ourselves and our relationships.

Ultimately, Christina hopes to support you in developing a more trusting and compassionate relationship with yourself, so that you can navigate life with greater choice, emotional steadiness and authenticity, rather than feeling governed by old survival strategies.