Barbara Harrison
Compassionate counsellor for life and relationship strain
About Barbara
Barbara Harrison helps people who are worried about relationships, anxiety, stress, low self‑esteem, career crossroads and major life changes. She supports those dealing with trauma, grief, sleep problems, anger, depression and compassion fatigue. She also listens to concerns around intimacy and family issues.
Barbara carries a BACP accreditation and has five years of practice in the United Kingdom. Her style is respectful and down to earth. She adapts conversations to what each person needs and keeps plans simple and practical.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on what a person is finding difficult now and on small steps they can try between meetings. Barbara blends a few different approaches to suit the person in front of her. She draws on client-centred work to build a collaborative relationship and uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that have repeated over time.
Mindfulness exercises are used to help with stress and sleep, and trauma-focused methods are brought in when past wounds get in the way of current life. She also offers coaching for career decisions and management challenges, using practical tools to boost motivation and confidence. Conversations about attachment, communication problems, commitment issues and codependency are handled with straightforward questions and focused goals.
People come to Barbara for help with complex feelings such as abandonment, dissociation, guilt and shame, or for support during divorce, hospice and end-of-life matters. Her approach is collaborative and flexible, aimed at helping people find clearer direction and greater relief from daily strain.
What Barbara works with
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Sessions & fees
How Barbara’s approaches work online
Barbara uses client-centred therapy to build a trusting, non-judgemental space where people lead the conversation and set the pace. This approach helps with anxiety, low self-esteem and life changes by focusing on the person’s own goals and strengths.She also draws on trauma-focused therapy when past events continue to affect day-to-day life. This involves gentle, structured work to reduce the hold of painful memories and to improve coping with triggers and intense emotions.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that feel right, and adjust plans over time based on the person’s goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps home in on what actually helps.
Online sessions are offered by registered or accredited professionals and can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. Video is useful for in-depth discussion and visual cues, phone sessions can fit around busy days or low bandwidth, live chat lets people check in quickly, and messaging supports shorter updates or reflective notes between meetings. These options aim to make therapy easier to fit into everyday life and to keep momentum between 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
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
