About Simon
Simon Barkley is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people dealing with stress and anxiety. He also helps those facing addiction, anger, low self-esteem, grief and sleeping problems. Simon uses straightforward, practical ways to help people manage day-to-day difficulties and feel more able to cope.
He has eight years of professional experience and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Simon draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioural therapy and client-centred work to shape sessions.
Background and approach
He aims to help people notice their strengths and use them to move forward. Sessions are conversational and focused. Simon listens, reflects, and helps clients try small changes between meetings.
He explains ideas clearly and sets simple steps to practice outside sessions so progress can be tracked. Simon sees issues in the context of a person’s life. He pays attention to relationships, past hurts and present pressures.
This helps when dealing with trauma, relationship strain, career concerns or recurring patterns such as codependency and control issues. People who come for help often want clearer thinking, steadier mood and better sleep. Simon works alongside each person to identify achievable goals and to adjust methods if something does not fit.
He writes notes and checks in on progress, keeping work practical and relevant.
Approaches that suit online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of the work and focuses on listening, empathy and building trust. It helps people who need a steady, non-judgemental space to talk about anxiety, grief or self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, sleep problems and managing low mood by introducing small, doable experiments between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and work collaboratively to decide which methods to try. That means plans can change if something does not feel helpful, and techniques can be blended to match what the person needs.
Online work is flexible and can fit different lifestyles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule around work, travel or caring duties and help maintain steady progress without long commutes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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