Barbara Anzalone
Compassionate counsellor for stress and relationships
About Barbara
Barbara Anzalone is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has four years of professional experience and works with people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports clients dealing with relationship problems and the effects of trauma and abuse.
Her approach is warm and respectful. She aims to listen first and understand each person's situation before suggesting ways forward. Conversations and any plan are tailored to what the individual needs and prefers.
Background and approach
Barbara helps people untangle difficult feelings like guilt, shame, isolation and panic. She supports those coping with attachment and abandonment worries, body image concerns, and communication or control issues. She also offers help around divorce, separation, pregnancy and childbirth related distress.
Sessions explore practical steps alongside emotional understanding. The focus may include improving communication, rebuilding self-worth, managing panic attacks, and working through past hurt. The emphasis is on realistic strategies that fit everyday life.
She speaks English and Italian and works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally. Beginning therapy is framed as a collaborative process, with the counsellor and client setting goals together and adapting the pace as needed.
What Barbara works with
Sessions & fees
How practical therapeutic approaches work online
Barbara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people make sense of feelings and try manageable changes. One common approach simplifies difficult emotions into understandable patterns and teaches skills to cope with anxiety and panic attacks. Another approach looks at past hurt and attachment patterns to help people repair how they relate to others and build self-worth.Choosing which approach to use is a joint process. The therapist will ask about current problems, hopes for therapy and personal preferences. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made or needs shift.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video is useful for a fuller conversation when seeing facial cues helps. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer writing to speak or who want shorter, more frequent contact between longer sessions.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Italian
