About Barbara
Barbara Craig is a counsellor who uses an integrative approach to help adults manage stress, anxiety and relationship problems. She combines clear talking, gentle challenge and practical tools to make sense of difficult feelings. Sessions are offered in English and Polish and she works with individuals and people in relationships.
Her practice draws on cognitive behavioural methods for tackling unhelpful thoughts and patterns. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live by their values even when feelings are hard.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas are woven in to look at how early relationships shape current bonds and reactions. Barbara has five years of experience working with depression, loss and disenfranchised grief. She supports people facing trauma, domestic abuse and coercive control, and she helps with addictions and anger.
Other areas she addresses include parenting strain, self-esteem, eating concerns, career issues and coping with major life changes. She aims to offer a respectful, non-judgemental space where people can speak honestly and explore what they want to change. Her style balances listening with practical steps that can be used between sessions.
Sessions are available as open-ended therapy or shorter-term counselling depending on needs. Barbara is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She accepts international clients and works across a range of personal and relational concerns, tailoring each plan to the person in front of her.
Approaches that suit online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while taking steps that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and making clearer life choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns with practical exercises and small experiments to reduce worry and improve daily functioning. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current trust, communication and closeness, which is helpful when relationship dynamics or caregiving roles cause distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what feels most useful. That discussion guides whether sessions focus more on skills practice, values work or exploring attachment patterns, and the plan is adjusted as things change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work that fit busy lives. Video calls let people speak face to face and use visual cues, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can suit short check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing reflection and brief support between sessions. Registered or accredited professionals can use these formats to deliver structured exercises, guided mindfulness, behavioural experiments and conversations that build understanding, all without travelling to appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Polish
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