About Barbara
Barbara Cross works from a flexible, person-focused approach that adapts to each person's needs. She combines Client-Centred listening with practical techniques so people can tackle stress, low mood and relationship problems in everyday language. Barbara is registered with the NCPS and has nine years of professional experience.
Her sessions are straightforward and collaborative. She aims to help people spot unhelpful thoughts, try different responses and build confidence in small steps.
How Barbara works
Practical tools from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy sit alongside deeper conversation about life patterns and meaning. Barbara helps with anxiety, depression and trauma-related concerns, and with issues around self-esteem, intimacy and parenting. She also supports people facing career strain, anger, caregiving stress and difficult life changes.
Additional areas she addresses include abandonment, attachment problems and communication difficulties. The work can include solution-focused planning, motivational interviewing to boost momentum, and narrative methods to make sense of personal stories. Hypnotherapy is another option she uses when people are open to it and it fits their goals.
Sessions are shaped to what each person needs rather than following one fixed method. People can expect an open, non-judgemental space where Barbara offers honest feedback and practical suggestions. She aims to help clients increase self-awareness, build resilience and take manageable steps towards the life they want.
Barbara lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Barbara works with
The areas below are the ones Barbara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use online and how they help
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on being heard and understood. It gives space to talk through feelings and beliefs so people can build self-awareness and confidence. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) works on recognising thought patterns and trying practical strategies to change unhelpful reactions, which can help with anxiety, low mood and stress. Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation and focused attention to support behaviour change and reduce entrenched habits when someone chooses that route.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then try methods together. This makes therapy a collaborative process where techniques are adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or video feels uncomfortable, and live chat or text-based messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options give flexibility for people who travel, have varied schedules or prefer different ways of talking.
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