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Online therapy available from Monday to Friday

I provide a safe, non-judgmental space to help you understand the 'why' behind your feelings. By looking at your past and your unconscious patterns, we can work together to transform your behavior and help you move forward with more clarity.

I support individuals who are navigating:

- Childhood trauma: Gently exploring and healing from painful past experiences that still shape your emotional world

- Difficult family dynamics: Learning to set healthy boundaries and step out of old roles that no longer serve you

- Toxic relationships: Processing the pain of unhealthy dynamics, leaving safely, and beginning to rebuild your sense of self

- Rebuilding self-worth and trust: Restoring confidence, inner safety, and your ability to trust yourself and others again

- Workplace stress & burnout: Coping with pressure, perfectionism, and chronic overwhelm in demanding environments

- Anxiety & low self-worth: Letting go of constant self-criticism and building a kinder, more confident inner voice

- Depression: Moving through heaviness, numbness, and disconnection with care and understanding

- People-pleasing tendencies: Breaking free from the need to earn approval and reconnecting with your own needs and values

- Anxiety: Moving beyond just "managing" symptoms to explore the underlying causes of your worry. Together, we’ll uncover the past experiences or patterns that keep you on edge, helping you find lasting ways to overcome it.

- Social Anxiety: Working through the feeling of being "shut down" or painfully shy around others. We will look at these initial behaviours to help you feel more present, authentic, and comfortable in social spaces.

My Approach

As an integrative therapist, I draw from a blend of psychodynamic, humanistic, trauma-informed, CBT, Gestalt, and inner child work. This allows us to explore how your past experiences shape your present while also focusing on practical ways to help you cope, grow, and thrive today.

I believe therapy is most powerful when it honours the whole of who you are, your wounds, strengths, fears, and hopes. Our work will be collaborative and paced with care, always tailored to your unique needs and what feels safe and supportive.

If you're feeling called to make a change, whether healing from the past, finding balance in your relationships, or simply learning to be kinder to yourself, therapy can help you come home to yourself.

At your own pace

At first, when you have a first counseling session, you may find the prospect of opening up about your private experiences and personal reactions to them daunting. Rest assured that this is normal and that you will never be forced to share more than you feel comfortable sharing, and certainly not before a degree of trust between us is in place. It may take a few sessions for this to happen and collaboratively we will determine the pace of our work together.

I offer online and face to face sessions in Space to Be You in Hackney.

The initial consultation will give us both a chance to decide whether counseling is for you and whether we are a good enough fit and can work well together. During this free phone assessment, I will ask you some questions about your background history, presenting issues (what is troubling you), and expectations for therapy. You will also be invited to ask me anything which may help you clarify whether you would feel comfortable with me. If we choose to work together, we will establish the focus of therapy and a treatment plan that will meet your needs. If, however, we agree that you may be better suited to a different therapist, I will do my best to signpost you in the right direction.

Goals

From the start, we will agree on what you would like to get out of therapy. However, we will be reviewing the work as we move along, offering you the opportunity to reflect on your progress and how we are doing. It is not uncommon for initial goals to change as the therapeutic work evolves.

Monday: am/pm

Tuesday: am/pm

Wednesday: am/pm

Thursday: am/pm

Friday: am/pm

Online therapy available from Monday to Friday

Hi, I am Barbara,

I offer a warm, thoughtful, and non-judgmental space where you can feel safe bringing parts of yourself that you may usually keep hidden. My goal is to help you connect more fully with your authentic self, fostering a sense of acceptance, compassion, and resilience.

I integrate few different frameworks to support your healing journey:

Psychodynamic Exploration: I help you bring limiting unconscious beliefs into conscious awareness by identifying recurring patterns from your childhood and past experiences. This process helps you identify the root causes of your emotional distress rather than just managing the symptoms. Once these patterns are brought to light, they lose their power over you, giving you the freedom to build a life that feels authentic and new.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: I use CBT to help you challenge negative thought processes and internal narratives, providing practical tools to manage anxiety, panic attacks, and your inner critic. By transforming your relationship with your thoughts, you gain the confidence to face challenging situations with a calmer, more balanced perspective instead of feeling overwhelmed by them.

Somatic Awareness: For those who find it difficult to put feelings into words, I use body scans and somatic dialogue to help you connect with and give a voice to unprocessed emotions held within the body. By learning to listen to your body's physical signals, you can release stored tension and develop a greater sense of internal safety and emotional resilience.

I have extensive experience supporting clients with:

Anxiety

Social Anxiety

Anger Management

Depression

Feeling sad

Relationship and complex family dynamics

Co-dependency

Grief and challenging breakups

Low self esteem

Low confidence

People Pleasing tendencies

Emotional abuse

Toxic relationship

Life transitions

CPTSD

Trauma

Workplace stress and burnout

Feelings of shame, guilt, loss

Establishing healthy boundaries in relationships and at work

Couples Therapy

I support couples to communicate their wants and needs more clearly and to find greater relational balance, working on conflict resolution and restoring intimacy. We explore emotional triggers; habitual roles people take to protect themselves and develop practical ways to replace negative cycles with healthier patterns.

Integrative Framework

I chose integration because I believe that there is no one way of understanding human behavior and no therapeutic approach that is suitable for everyone and all presenting issues. I integrate different theoretical approaches into a cohesive, relational way of working which involves the ‘self’ of the therapist being present on multiple levels in the work with clients.

At your own pace

At first, when you have your first counseling session, you may find the prospect of opening up about your private experiences and personal reactions to them daunting. Rest assured that this is normal and that you will never be forced to share more than you feel comfortable sharing, and certainly not before a degree of trust between us is in place. It may take a few sessions for this to happen and collaboratively we will determine the pace of our work together.

I offer online and face to face sessions at Space to Be You in Hackney

The initial consultation will give us both a chance to decide whether counseling is for you and whether we are a good enough fit and can work well together. During this free phone assessment, I will ask you some questions about your background history, presenting issues (what is troubling you), and expectations for therapy. You will also be invited to ask me anything which may help you clarify whether you would feel comfortable with me. If we choose to work together, we will establish the focus of therapy and a treatment plan that will meet your needs. If, however, we agree that you may be better suited to a different therapist, I will do my best to signpost you in the right direction.

Goals

From the start, we will agree on what you would like to get out of therapy. However, we will be reviewing the work as we move along, offering you the opportunity to reflect on your progress and how we are doing. It is not uncommon for initial goals to change as the therapeutic work evolves.

Monday: am/pm

Tuesday: am/pm

Wednesday: am/pm

Thursday: am/pm

Friday: am/pm

Online sessions are available from Monday to Friday for short-term and long-term therapy

I provide a safe, non-judgmental space to help you understand the 'why' behind your feelings. By looking at your past and your unconscious patterns, we can work together to transform your behavior and help you move forward with more clarity.

I support individuals who are navigating:

- Childhood trauma: Gently exploring and healing from painful past experiences that still shape your emotional world

- Difficult family dynamics: Learning to set healthy boundaries and step out of old roles that no longer serve you

- Toxic relationships: Processing the pain of unhealthy dynamics, leaving safely, and beginning to rebuild your sense of self

- Rebuilding self-worth and trust: Restoring confidence, inner safety, and your ability to trust yourself and others again

- Workplace stress & burnout: Coping with pressure, perfectionism, and chronic overwhelm in demanding environments

- Anxiety & low self-worth: Letting go of constant self-criticism and building a kinder, more confident inner voice

- Depression: Moving through heaviness, numbness, and disconnection with care and understanding

- People-pleasing tendencies: Breaking free from the need to earn approval and reconnecting with your own needs and values

- Anxiety: Moving beyond just "managing" symptoms to explore the underlying causes of your worry. Together, we’ll uncover the past experiences or patterns that keep you on edge, helping you find lasting ways to overcome it.

- Social Anxiety: Working through the feeling of being "shut down" or painfully shy around others. We will look at these initial behaviours to help you feel more present, authentic, and comfortable in social spaces.

My Approach

As an integrative therapist, I draw from a blend of psychodynamic, humanistic, trauma-informed, CBT, Gestalt, and inner child work. This allows us to explore how your past experiences shape your present while also focusing on practical ways to help you cope, grow, and thrive today.

I believe therapy is most powerful when it honours the whole of who you are, your wounds, strengths, fears, and hopes. Our work will be collaborative and paced with care, always tailored to your unique needs and what feels safe and supportive.

If you're feeling called to make a change, whether healing from the past, finding balance in your relationships, or simply learning to be kinder to yourself, therapy can help you come home to yourself.

At your own pace

At first, when you have a first counseling session, you may find the prospect of opening up about your private experiences and personal reactions to them daunting. Rest assured that this is normal and that you will never be forced to share more than you feel comfortable sharing, and certainly not before a degree of trust between us is in place. It may take a few sessions for this to happen and collaboratively we will determine the pace of our work together.

I offer online and face to face sessions in Space to Be You in Hackney.

The initial consultation will give us both a chance to decide whether counseling is for you and whether we are a good enough fit and can work well together. During this free phone assessment, I will ask you some questions about your background history, presenting issues (what is troubling you), and expectations for therapy. You will also be invited to ask me anything which may help you clarify whether you would feel comfortable with me. If we choose to work together, we will establish the focus of therapy and a treatment plan that will meet your needs. If, however, we agree that you may be better suited to a different therapist, I will do my best to signpost you in the right direction.

Goals

From the start, we will agree on what you would like to get out of therapy. However, we will be reviewing the work as we move along, offering you the opportunity to reflect on your progress and how we are doing. It is not uncommon for initial goals to change as the therapeutic work evolves.

Monday: am/pm

Tuesday: am/pm

Wednesday: am/pm

Thursday: am/pm

Friday: am/pm

Online therapy from Monday to Friday

I provide a safe, non-judgmental space to help you understand the 'why' behind your feelings. By looking at your past and your unconscious patterns, we can work together to transform your behavior and help you move forward with more clarity.

I support individuals who are navigating:

- Childhood trauma: Gently exploring and healing from painful past experiences that still shape your emotional world

- Difficult family dynamics: Learning to set healthy boundaries and step out of old roles that no longer serve you

- Toxic relationships: Processing the pain of unhealthy dynamics, leaving safely, and beginning to rebuild your sense of self

- Rebuilding self-worth and trust: Restoring confidence, inner safety, and your ability to trust yourself and others again

- Workplace stress & burnout: Coping with pressure, perfectionism, and chronic overwhelm in demanding environments

- Anxiety & low self-worth: Letting go of constant self-criticism and building a kinder, more confident inner voice

- Depression: Moving through heaviness, numbness, and disconnection with care and understanding

- People-pleasing tendencies: Breaking free from the need to earn approval and reconnecting with your own needs and values

- Anxiety: Moving beyond just "managing" symptoms to explore the underlying causes of your worry. Together, we’ll uncover the past experiences or patterns that keep you on edge, helping you find lasting ways to overcome it.

- Social Anxiety: Working through the feeling of being "shut down" or painfully shy around others. We will look at these initial behaviours to help you feel more present, authentic, and comfortable in social spaces.

My Approach

As an integrative therapist, I draw from a blend of psychodynamic, humanistic, trauma-informed, CBT, Gestalt, and inner child work. This allows us to explore how your past experiences shape your present while also focusing on practical ways to help you cope, grow, and thrive today.

I believe therapy is most powerful when it honours the whole of who you are, your wounds, strengths, fears, and hopes. Our work will be collaborative and paced with care, always tailored to your unique needs and what feels safe and supportive.

If you're feeling called to make a change, whether healing from the past, finding balance in your relationships, or simply learning to be kinder to yourself, therapy can help you come home to yourself.

At your own pace

At first, when you have a first counseling session, you may find the prospect of opening up about your private experiences and personal reactions to them daunting. Rest assured that this is normal and that you will never be forced to share more than you feel comfortable sharing, and certainly not before a degree of trust between us is in place. It may take a few sessions for this to happen and collaboratively we will determine the pace of our work together.

I offer online and face to face sessions in Space to Be You in Hackney.

The initial consultation will give us both a chance to decide whether counseling is for you and whether we are a good enough fit and can work well together. During this free phone assessment, I will ask you some questions about your background history, presenting issues (what is troubling you), and expectations for therapy. You will also be invited to ask me anything which may help you clarify whether you would feel comfortable with me. If we choose to work together, we will establish the focus of therapy and a treatment plan that will meet your needs. If, however, we agree that you may be better suited to a different therapist, I will do my best to signpost you in the right direction.

Goals

From the start, we will agree on what you would like to get out of therapy. However, we will be reviewing the work as we move along, offering you the opportunity to reflect on your progress and how we are doing. It is not uncommon for initial goals to change as the therapeutic work evolves.

Monday: am/pm

Tuesday: am/pm

Wednesday: am/pm

Thursday: am/pm

Friday: am/pm

Online therapy available from Monday to Friday

Hi, I am Barbara,

I provide a safe, non-judgmental space to help you understand the 'why' behind your feelings. By looking at your past and your unconscious patterns, we can work together to transform your behavior and help you move forward with more clarity.

I support individuals who are navigating:

- Childhood trauma: Gently exploring and healing from painful past experiences that still shape your emotional world

- Difficult family dynamics: Learning to set healthy boundaries and step out of old roles that no longer serve you

- Toxic relationships: Processing the pain of unhealthy dynamics, leaving safely, and beginning to rebuild your sense of self

- Rebuilding self-worth and trust: Restoring confidence, inner safety, and your ability to trust yourself and others again

- Workplace stress & burnout: Coping with pressure, perfectionism, and chronic overwhelm in demanding environments

- Anxiety & low self-worth: Letting go of constant self-criticism and building a kinder, more confident inner voice

- Depression: Moving through heaviness, numbness, and disconnection with care and understanding

- People-pleasing tendencies: Breaking free from the need to earn approval and reconnecting with your own needs and values

- Anxiety: Moving beyond just "managing" symptoms to explore the underlying causes of your worry. Together, we’ll uncover the past experiences or patterns that keep you on edge, helping you find lasting ways to overcome it.

- Social Anxiety: Working through the feeling of being "shut down" or painfully shy around others. We will look at these initial behaviours to help you feel more present, authentic, and comfortable in social spaces.

My Approach

As an integrative therapist, I draw from a blend of psychodynamic, humanistic, trauma-informed, CBT, Gestalt, and inner child work. This allows us to explore how your past experiences shape your present while also focusing on practical ways to help you cope, grow, and thrive today.

I believe therapy is most powerful when it honours the whole of who you are, your wounds, strengths, fears, and hopes. Our work will be collaborative and paced with care, always tailored to your unique needs and what feels safe and supportive.

If you're feeling called to make a change, whether healing from the past, finding balance in your relationships, or simply learning to be kinder to yourself, therapy can help you come home to yourself.

Couples Therapy

I support couples to communicate their wants and needs more clearly and to find greater relational balance, working on conflict resolution and restoring intimacy. We explore emotional triggers; habitual roles people take to protect themselves and develop practical ways to replace negative cycles with healthier patterns.

At your own pace

At first, when you have your first counseling session, you may find the prospect of opening up about your private experiences and personal reactions to them daunting. Rest assured that this is normal and that you will never be forced to share more than you feel comfortable sharing, and certainly not before a degree of trust between us is in place. It may take a few sessions for this to happen and collaboratively we will determine the pace of our work together.

The initial consultation will give us both a chance to decide whether counseling is for you and whether we are a good enough fit and can work well together. During this free phone assessment, I will ask you some questions about your background history, presenting issues (what is troubling you), and expectations for therapy. You will also be invited to ask me anything which may help you clarify whether you would feel comfortable with me. If we choose to work together, we will establish the focus of therapy and a treatment plan that will meet your needs. If, however, we agree that you may be better suited to a different therapist, I will do my best to signpost you in the right direction.

Goals

From the start, we will agree on what you would like to get out of therapy. However, we will be reviewing the work as we move along, offering you the opportunity to reflect on your progress and how we are doing. It is not uncommon for initial goals to change as the therapeutic work evolve.

Monday: am/pm

Tuesday: am/pm

Wednesday: am/pm

Thursday: am/pm

Friday: am/pm

Online therapy is available from Monday to Friday

Hi I am Barbara,

I provide a safe, non-judgmental space to help you understand the 'why' behind your feelings. By looking at your past and your unconscious patterns, we can work together to transform your behavior and help you move forward with more clarity.

I support individuals who are navigating:

- Childhood trauma: Gently exploring and healing from painful past experiences that still shape your emotional world

- Difficult family dynamics: Learning to set healthy boundaries and step out of old roles that no longer serve you

- Toxic relationships: Processing the pain of unhealthy dynamics, leaving safely, and beginning to rebuild your sense of self

- Rebuilding self-worth and trust: Restoring confidence, inner safety, and your ability to trust yourself and others again

- Workplace stress & burnout: Coping with pressure, perfectionism, and chronic overwhelm in demanding environments

- Anxiety & low self-worth: Letting go of constant self-criticism and building a kinder, more confident inner voice

- Depression: Moving through heaviness, numbness, and disconnection with care and understanding

- People-pleasing tendencies: Breaking free from the need to earn approval and reconnecting with your own needs and values

- Anxiety: Moving beyond just "managing" symptoms to explore the underlying causes of your worry. Together, we’ll uncover the past experiences or patterns that keep you on edge, helping you find lasting ways to overcome it.

- Social Anxiety: Working through the feeling of being "shut down" or painfully shy around others. We will look at these initial behaviours to help you feel more present, authentic, and comfortable in social spaces.

My Approach

As an integrative therapist, I draw from a blend of psychodynamic, humanistic, trauma-informed, CBT, Gestalt, and inner child work. This allows us to explore how your past experiences shape your present while also focusing on practical ways to help you cope, grow, and thrive today.

I believe therapy is most powerful when it honours the whole of who you are, your wounds, strengths, fears, and hopes. Our work will be collaborative and paced with care, always tailored to your unique needs and what feels safe and supportive.

If you're feeling called to make a change, whether healing from the past, finding balance in your relationships, or simply learning to be kinder to yourself, therapy can help you come home to yourself.

Couples Therapy

I support couples to communicate their wants and needs more clearly and to find greater relational balance, working on conflict resolution and restoring intimacy. We explore emotional triggers; habitual roles people take to protect themselves and develop practical ways to replace negative cycles with healthier patterns.

At your own pace

At first, when you have a first counseling session, you may find the prospect of opening up about your private experiences and personal reactions to them daunting. Rest assured that this is normal and that you will never be forced to share more than you feel comfortable sharing, and certainly not before a degree of trust between us is in place. It may take a few sessions for this to happen and collaboratively we will determine the pace of our work together.

The initial consultation will give us both a chance to decide whether counseling is for you and whether we are a good enough fit and can work well together. During this free phone assessment, I will ask you some questions about your background history, presenting issues (what is troubling you), and expectations for therapy. You will also be invited to ask me anything which may help you clarify whether you would feel comfortable with me. If we choose to work together, we will establish the focus of therapy and a treatment plan that will meet your needs. If, however, we agree that you may be better suited to a different therapist, I will do my best to signpost you in the right direction.

Goals

From the start, we will agree on what you would like to get out of therapy. However, we will be reviewing the work as we move along, offering you the opportunity to reflect on your progress and how we are doing. It is not uncommon for initial goals to change as the therapeutic work evolves.