About Sandra
Sandra Barrett is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She uses a calm, person-focused way of working to help people cope with stress and anxiety. Sandra draws on five years of experience to support clients facing relationship strain, grief, low self-esteem and depression.
She values empathy and straightforward conversation. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs and goals. Sandra aims to help clients build motivation, confidence and clearer outlooks on difficult choices.
Background and approach
Her approach includes talking about past patterns and current strengths to make sense of repeating difficulties. That can help with attachment issues, abandonment concerns and communication problems. Sandra also works with people managing chronic illness, caregiver strain and other long-term stresses.
Practical problem-solving features alongside deeper reflection. Solution-focused tools are used to set small, achievable steps. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change.
Sandra is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She offers sessions in English and sees people both in the UK and internationally. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions that fit their schedule.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Sandra often uses attachment-based and client-centred ways of working. Attachment-based therapy looks at patterns from early relationships and how they affect trust and communication now, which can help with abandonment, attachment issues and relationship concerns. Client-centred therapy places the person at the heart of sessions and focuses on listening, empathy and the client's own goals to build confidence and self-esteem.She also draws on solution-focused techniques to set clear, short-term goals and on motivational interviewing when someone is unsure about making a change. Finding the right mix of approaches happens together - the therapist and client discuss what feels most useful and adapt the plan as work progresses.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone work, live chat or text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter place is easier to arrange. Live chat and text are handy for brief check-ins, practical coaching, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and travel, and help maintain continuity of support across locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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