Bianca Barbu
Practical counselling for stress and relationships
About Bianca
Bianca Barbu helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationships and trauma. She also supports those facing parenting challenges, grief, low self-esteem and major life changes. Bianca works in English and practices in the United Kingdom.
She has six years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Bianca creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can speak openly about what worries them. Sessions focus on what matters now and practical steps to make daily life easier.
Background and approach
She listens closely to each person and adapts her approach to their needs. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships affect present behaviour. She also uses trauma-focused methods to help people process difficult events.
Systemic thinking is used when patterns between people are part of the problem. Bianca favours client-centred counselling that places the person's own goals at the heart of therapy. That means conversations are led by what the client wants to change and by their pace.
She offers straightforward tools and reflective space rather than jargon or long lectures. People come for a range of issues including family problems, communication difficulties, caregiver stress, hoarding and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Bianca aims to help clients find clearer choices and more manageable ways to cope with day-to-day life.
What Bianca works with
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Sessions & fees
How attachment and trauma approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help people notice how they attach to others and try new ways of relating. Trauma-focused therapy helps people process and manage the effects of distressing events. Delivered online, it often combines careful pacing with practical grounding strategies to reduce overwhelming feelings.Finding the right way of working is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and together decide whether attachment-based, trauma-focused or other approaches fit best. That collaborative discussion guides the plan for sessions and any practical steps between meetings.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are close to face-to-face conversation and let the therapist read facial cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer typing or want shorter, more frequent contact. These options make it simpler to fit counselling into busy routines and to keep continuity when life is unpredictable.
| 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
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
