About Randa
Randa Barnes is a counsellor who uses a person-centred approach to help people manage anxiety and related concerns. She brings 13 years of experience and speaks English and Arabic. Her manner is warm and practical, focused on small steps that make daily life easier.
She helps with a wide range of issues including stress, relationship and family difficulties, parenting strain, low mood and grief. Addictions, eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem and bipolar mood challenges are also within her scope.
Background and approach
She offers support around ADHD, trauma and abuse, and LGBT and gender dysphoria matters. Her practice draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She uses cognitive behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try out new behaviours.
Mindfulness is used to build calm and increase moment-to-moment awareness. Sessions are tailored to each person. That may mean focusing on communication skills, tackling avoidance, or working on boundaries and forgiveness.
She also addresses practical problems such as caregiver stress, hoarding tendencies and control issues that can disrupt daily routines. Randa holds BACP accreditation, which is shown as BACP. She works with people across the United Kingdom and accepts international clients.
Therapy can be delivered in English or Arabic, and sessions are arranged to suit each person's circumstances.
Approaches that fit your life online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people who notice repeated relationship problems, difficulty trusting others or strong fears of abandonment to make sense of those patterns and try different ways of relating.Client-centred therapy focuses on the person's own pace and priorities. It offers a non-judgemental space to talk, build self-understanding and work towards goals such as improving self-esteem or coping with life changes.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, targets the thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and eating or sleeping difficulties because it mixes thinking exercises with practical behaviour changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss what feels most helpful and adapt methods to each person's needs and preferences. This is a collaborative process and plans are adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat or text messaging to give practical flexibility. Video suits deeper conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works well for short check-ins or when journalling between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties or travel and keep continuity of care for people in different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Arabic
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