About Barbara
Barbara Josik is a counsellor who works with people facing stress and anxiety. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk about what feels difficult. Her manner is warm and compassionate and she invites practical conversation about everyday struggles.
Barbara blends psychodynamic ideas with client-centred care to tailor sessions to each person. She encourages gentle reflection on past experiences while also focusing on present concerns and practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Sessions are usually weekly and last fifty minutes, with the option to meet more often when needed. Her background includes work in a range of mental health and therapeutic settings over four years. During that time she has supported people dealing with depression, trauma, grief, relationship and family issues, anger and low self-esteem.
She also helps with work-related stress, compassion fatigue and change-related coaching. Barbara uses a mix of approaches including cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness alongside psychodynamic exploration and solution-focused work. This allows her to combine short-term practical tools with deeper reflection.
She explains methods clearly and adapts them to what each person finds most helpful. Sessions are offered in English and Polish and take place online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Getting started involves completing a short matching questionnaire and arranging a first appointment to see if the working style fits.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person's own experience and priorities. The counsellor listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, helping them find their own direction and make changes that feel right. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and uses practical exercises to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment awareness and simple exercises to reduce stress and help with rumination.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the approach as progress is made, so therapy stays relevant and collaborative.
Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging gives practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual contact for deeper conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, childcare or other commitments while still getting regular support from a registered or accredited professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Polish
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