Barbara Josik
Warm client-centred therapist with psychodynamic insight
About Barbara
Barbara Josik uses a person-centred and psychodynamic approach to help people understand what keeps them stuck and to find ways forward. She creates a warm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk about difficult feelings and events. Barbara is described by her training as BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which appears on her profile.
Her sessions focus on what is on the client’s mind in the moment. Conversations can include past experiences and present patterns so people can notice links between them.
Background and approach
She combines client-centred listening with psychodynamic ideas to gently uncover habits formed long ago. Barbara also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness to offer practical tools when needed. That means alongside exploring feelings, people can learn new ways to manage anxiety, sleep problems, low mood or addictive behaviours.
Sessions are tailored to the person rather than a fixed template. She has four years of experience working across different mental health and therapeutic settings. Over that time she has supported people facing stress, trauma and loss, relationship and family struggles, grief, parenting strain, anger and depression among other concerns.
Sessions are normally fifty minutes and usually weekly, though frequency can be adjusted by mutual agreement. The first meeting is an opportunity to see if the working relationship feels right and to agree how to proceed.
What Barbara works with
How Barbara works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Barbara combines client-centred therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy to meet immediate needs and deeper patterns. Client-centred therapy focuses on empathic listening and putting the person’s experience at the heart of sessions so people feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioural therapy offers straightforward techniques to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, which can be useful for anxiety, sleep problems, low mood and addictions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to decide which methods suit their goals, needs and preferences, and adapt the balance of exploration and practical tools as the work progresses.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from a chosen location, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, live chat suits quick exchanges and text messaging makes it possible to reflect between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and daily routines, and to keep continuity when attendance in person is difficult.
| 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Polish
