Barry Golten
Compassionate counsellor for life transitions
About Barry
Barry Golten helps people facing low self-esteem, anxiety, stress, addictions and grief. He also supports those wrestling with relationship and intimacy issues, family problems, career uncertainty, and questions about identity and purpose. Barry draws on ten years of recent experience to offer calm, practical guidance.
He works in a straightforward, person-centred way. Sessions focus on what matters now and what a person wants to change. Barry uses gentle curiosity to look at how past experiences shape current patterns, while also spotting the small steps that create real shifts.
Background and approach
His practice brings together several strands of his training. He values the idea that different parts of a person can hold different feelings and needs, and uses that view to help people make sense of inner conflict. He also borrows solution-focused ideas to identify strengths and next steps the client can try between sessions.
Clients can expect a steady, non-judgemental presence. Barry aims to build trust over time and to help people find clearer choices when life feels stuck. He frames work as a joint effort and encourages practical experiments outside sessions.
Barry holds a BACP accreditation, which is shown as BACP. He offers sessions from the United Kingdom and works with people in English. For anyone considering starting, he explains the process clearly and supports gentle first steps.
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Sessions & fees
How Internal Family Systems fits with online therapy
Internal Family Systems views a person as made up of different parts that hold feelings, beliefs and memories. In practice this means gently identifying those parts, noticing how they react, and helping them find less extreme roles. It can be useful for anxiety, trauma responses, shame and conflict within oneself.Barry also uses solution-focused ideas alongside this model, which look for existing strengths and small experiments that move a person forward. That approach targets practical changes and helps clients test what works between sessions. Together these ways of working aim to balance understanding with action and choice.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options with each person and agree a way of working based on needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer flexibility that can suit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face connection, phone sessions work well when less bandwidth is needed, and live chat or text messaging provide brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties or travel and help maintain continuity when schedules 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
