Douglas Barbieri
Practical, person-focused support for emotional struggles
About Douglas
Douglas Barbieri helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or low self-esteem. He is a counsellor with six years of professional experience and works in the United Kingdom. He offers practical support for depression and for those affected by trauma and abuse.
Douglas uses plain conversation to help people name and understand hard feelings. He encourages self-awareness and looks at how personality patterns affect daily life. He also helps people spot negative automatic thoughts and find new ways of responding to them.
Background and approach
His practice covers a wide range of concerns, including addiction, dissociation, body image, chronic illness, and issues around attachment and abandonment. He also addresses communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, and the impact of infidelity or bereavement. Douglas draws on several approaches to tailor sessions to each person.
He offers client-centred support that places the person’s own experience first, cognitive behavioural ideas for tackling unhelpful thoughts, and mindfulness exercises to reduce distress. Sessions are intended to be a collaborative space for thinking things through and making manageable changes. People can expect straightforward language and a calm, non-judgemental tone.
He aims to provide fresh viewpoints so clients can make clearer decisions about their next steps. Work continues at a pace set by the person seeking help. Douglas speaks English and Portuguese and sees clients in the United Kingdom as well as international clients.
He works via video, phone, live chat and text to fit different needs.
What Douglas works with
How Douglas works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so people can explore feelings and make their own choices about change. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and gives practical exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking patterns and build new habits. Emotionally-focused work helps people identify strong emotions and understand how these shape reactions and relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Douglas will discuss options with each person and decide together which methods suit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process means therapy can shift if different tools are needed as things move forward.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions around work, family or travel. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, and brief check-ins by chat or messaging suit quick updates or reflection between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and accessible for different routines and practical needs.
| 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
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
