Barbara Coates
Practical, compassionate psychotherapy for everyday life
About Barbara
Barbara Coates is a psychotherapist practising in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience. She holds a Master’s degree and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Barbara aims to create a warm, non-judgemental space where people can talk openly about difficult thoughts and feelings.
She uses a blend of approaches tailored to each person’s needs. Sessions focus on understanding current difficulties, identifying personal strengths, and developing practical tools for coping.
Background and approach
Conversations are grounded, clear and aimed at helping people make real changes in daily life. Barbara helps with common concerns such as stress, anxiety, low mood, trauma and grief. She also supports people with self-esteem, relationship strain, anger, sleeping problems, addictions and coping with life changes.
Additional areas she works on include attachment difficulties, body image, caregiver stress and chronic illness challenges. Her ways of working include gentle listening, emotional exploration, and teaching strategies people can use between sessions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns and try new approaches.
Attachment-based ideas help make sense of close relationship patterns rooted in early life. Barbara adapts the pace and tools to each person. She will work with clients to build skills for emotion regulation, stress management and improved wellbeing.
The focus is practical - small changes that add up to better day-to-day functioning.
What Barbara works with
How Barbara works
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches work online and in sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns formed in early relationships and how they affect adult connections. It helps people understand why they react in certain ways and supports building healthier ways of relating.Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the centre. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps the person find their own solutions and greater self-understanding.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety or low mood by testing and changing unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Barbara will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust things as therapy progresses, keeping the process collaborative.
Online therapy makes sessions easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options increase flexibility and help people access consistent support from wherever they are.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
