Randa Barnes
Compassionate counsellor blending attachment and practical tools
About Randa
Randa Barnes is a counsellor who uses attachment-based and client-centred approaches to help people make sense of difficult feelings. She draws on 13 years of practice and her British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) accreditation. Randa works in English and Arabic and offers support to people with a wide range of concerns.
Randa focuses on helping people who struggle with stress and anxiety, depression, relationship and family problems, grief, and addictions.
Background and approach
She also assists with eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and coping with life changes. Her additional interests include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, hoarding, and communication problems. Her style is straightforward and person-centred.
In sessions she listens first, then helps people identify patterns and practical steps that fit their life. She blends cognitive behavioural ideas with mindfulness and narrative elements to help people notice thoughts, try different behaviours, and tell a clearer story about themselves. Randa pays attention to family of origin concerns and how past relationships influence current ones.
She also brings existential thinking when people face big life questions or want to find meaning after loss. Her work aims to increase self-awareness and build coping skills that people can use day to day. People can access Randa from the United Kingdom via video, phone, live chat, or messaging.
Her way of working is adaptable so sessions can be shaped around individual needs and preferences.
What Randa works with
How Randa works
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Sessions & fees
How attachment and practical therapies work online
Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions help people notice how they connect with others and practise different ways of relating when difficulties with trust or abandonment come up. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. In remote work this means the counsellor mirrors feelings, asks gently curious questions, and helps people feel heard so they can explore what matters to them. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviours. In online sessions CBT often includes simple experiments and homework that fit everyday life.Finding the right approach is part of the process, and the therapist will work together with each person to decide what fits best. Randa will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs, then adapt methods from attachment, client-centred and CBT approaches so sessions are useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer writing, need brief updates between sessions, or want to work outside standard hours. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and daily life while keeping the focus on meaningful, practical progress.
| 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Arabic
