About Barry
Barry Dolan helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction and low mood. He also supports people facing grief, relationship strain, self-esteem difficulties and challenges with sleep or eating. He is experienced with ADHD, compassion fatigue and major life changes.
Barry works with a wide range of concerns so someone can bring whatever feels most urgent to their first session. Barry trained in counselling at Writtle University College and holds a Professional Diploma in Psychology and Counselling, level 5.
How Barry works
He has been practising since 2020 and has gathered five years of experience in personal work and in schools, as well as in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. That mix of settings means he has seen many everyday struggles and practical hurdles people face. His style is integrative.
Sessions are straightforward and conversational. He draws on approaches such as acceptance and commitment work, attachment-informed thinking, client-centred listening, cognitive techniques and some skills from dialectical approaches. The aim is to find simple, useable ways to cope between sessions.
In a typical meeting he will listen first, then help clarify what is most important to work on. Together they set practical steps and strategies the person can try. Sessions may include skills practice, checking progress and adjusting plans as needed.
Barry offers online and phone options for sessions and works with clients in English. People start by using the site match process to book a first appointment and go from there.
Barry lists 18 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Barry works with
The areas below are the ones Barry selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed, then choose actions that fit their values. It is useful when anxiety, low mood or life transitions make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with small experiments or skill practice to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. It works well for anxiety, depression and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current trust and closeness, and can help with intimacy issues and attachment worries.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Barry aims to explore methods together and pick what feels most helpful for the person's goals. He adapts techniques from these approaches so they fit the client's situation and preferences, and reviews progress continually.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual connection for deeper conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions or live chat are handy when bandwidth or camera use is limited, or when a shorter check-in is needed during a busy day. Text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection and brief adjustments between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and other commitments while still using evidence-based approaches with a registered or accredited professional.
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