About Barbara
Barbara Cross is a counsellor registered with the NCPS who brings nine years of professional experience. She works in a collaborative, flexible way and adapts her approach to each person's needs. Barbara focuses on everyday struggles such as stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression, and she also helps with relationship and parenting worries.
Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people make practical changes. Barbara draws on client-centred methods to help people explore their feelings and beliefs.
Background and approach
That approach emphasises being genuinely heard and understood, which can help increase self-awareness and confidence. She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviours interact and offers skills to manage anxiety and low mood. She combines narrative ideas to help people make sense of difficult life stories and hypnotherapy techniques when suitable.
These approaches are mixed depending on what each person finds most helpful. Sessions focus on practical steps, clearer thinking and building resilience rather than jargon or labels. Barbara has worked with a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, anger, career decisions, coping with life changes, commitment and attachment issues.
She also supports people dealing with caregiving stress and separation. Her background means she can shift between short-term problem solving and deeper work where needed. Sessions are offered in English and Barbara accepts international clients.
She aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk honestly, try new strategies and work towards clearer goals.
Blending practical therapy with online accessibility
Barbara typically combines Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy when working online. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, understanding and helping people clarify their own goals; it is useful when someone needs to explore feelings or build self-trust. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at thought patterns and behaviour and offers concrete tools to reduce anxiety and manage mood.She also uses hypnotherapy techniques selectively to support relaxation and help with habits or strong emotional reactions. These methods are explained plainly during sessions so people know what to expect and can decide whether to try them.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. That might mean starting with short-term CBT skills and adding client-centred or narrative elements later if deeper exploration is helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows a quicker check-in and messaging suits people who prefer written reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical progress and emotional understanding.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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