Barbara Craig
Compassionate therapist combining practical therapies
About Barbara
Barbara Craig uses a blend of talking therapies to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. She speaks English and Polish and draws on five years of professional experience while working with adults. Her approach is practical and calm, aiming to make sessions feel straightforward and manageable.
She adapts methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and attachment-based ideas. That means sessions focus on what matters to the person, noticing patterns of thought and improving how they relate to others.
Background and approach
Conversations are guided by the client’s goals, with space for reflection and practical steps. Barbara has experience supporting people through trauma and abuse, grief and loss, parenting strains and addiction concerns. She also works with issues such as low self-esteem, anger, eating difficulties, and coping with life changes.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, abandonment, attachment difficulties and relationship conflict. Sessions can be short-term or open-ended depending on what the person prefers. Barbara emphasises a respectful, non-judgemental atmosphere and aims to recognise cultural and identity differences in each person’s story.
She draws on person-centred principles to keep the person’s needs central. Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances talking with practical exercises. Work may include exploring past experiences that shape current reactions, learning new ways to respond to distress, and building skills to manage day-to-day challenges.
What Barbara works with
How Barbara works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on values-based actions. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes by teaching practical exercises and ways to live according to what matters most.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers clear strategies to change patterns that cause distress. It suits problems like panic, depression, anger and many everyday worries.
Attachment-based work pays attention to how early relationships shape current ways of relating. This can help when relationship patterns, abandonment worries or attachment issues affect trust and closeness.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels helpful, then tailor methods together. That collaborative process means approaches can shift as needs change.
Online formats offer flexible ways to fit therapy into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distance. Phone sessions can be simpler if bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit short, regular contact and people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to work around work, family or travel commitments while still focusing on meaningful change.
| 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
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Polish
