About Douglas
Douglas Barbieri is a counsellor with six years' experience based in the United Kingdom. He focuses on anxiety, stress, depression and the effects of trauma. He aims to make the first step easier by offering steady, non-judgemental support and practical ways to approach difficult feelings.
He encourages people to notice and name emotions that often feel overwhelming. Sessions centre on exploring what causes distress and on increasing personal awareness. That can mean looking at repeated patterns, unhelpful thoughts or ways of coping that no longer serve a person.
Background and approach
Douglas works from a blend of approaches that value the client's perspective. He draws on client-centred methods to prioritise each person's experience. Cognitive behavioural ideas help spot and change negative thinking patterns that feed anxiety and low mood.
He also uses emotionally-focused and mindfulness work to help people tolerate difficult feelings and build more helpful responses. Existential ideas are brought in when questions about meaning, identity or purpose are part of someone’s struggle. Sessions aim to be practical and straightforward.
Douglas offers fresh viewpoints and helps people weigh options so they can make clearer decisions about their lives. He speaks English and Portuguese and works with people from different backgrounds who want to address grief, self‑esteem, addiction, relationship difficulties and related concerns. People usually find the work is a combination of talking, simple exercises and moment-to-moment reflection.
The emphasis is on steady progress rather than quick fixes, and on helping people regain a sense of direction after a hard period.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Client‑centred therapy puts the person's experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens closely and follows the client's pace, helping people feel heard and understood while they talk through difficult feelings or decisions.Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and trying different responses. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and recurring negative thoughts because it offers simple exercises and practical steps to change patterns.
Emotionally‑focused work helps people name and tolerate strong feelings and improves how they respond to emotional pain. This approach can be useful when grief, loss or relationship hurt are part of the problem.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss different methods and try what fits best based on the client's needs, goals and preferences. Decisions about technique are made together so the client feels involved in shaping the sessions.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people talk face to face without travel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for shorter check‑ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Registered or accredited professionals deliver the sessions, and the variety of formats helps people fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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