About Barry
Barry Golten helps people facing common life stresses and deeper emotional struggles. He supports concerns such as low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, stress, grief, addiction and relationship or intimacy issues. He also helps with career uncertainty, compassion fatigue and themes around attachment and abandonment.
Barry works in a straightforward, practical way. Sessions focus on what matters to the person in front of him. He draws on several approaches to help people notice their strengths and take small, useful steps forward.
How Barry works
He trained as an integrative counsellor and has around ten years of focused therapy practice. Before returning to training and therapy work he spent many years in the charity sector, including management roles and support work. That background shaped his interest in trauma, attachment and resilience.
Barry makes space for painful memories while also looking for what can be done now. He uses Internal Family Systems alongside solution-focused ideas and psychodynamic awareness. The aim is to welcome difficult parts of the self, understand patterns from the past and build practical changes for today.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the person’s needs. Barry offers a calm, attentive presence and encourages gentle experimentation with new ways of coping and relating. He frames therapy as a journey of discovery, hope and practical progress.
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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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Barry uses Internal Family Systems to help people notice and relate to different parts of themselves. This approach invites curiosity about inner voices or feelings and helps reduce self-criticism and shame, which is often useful for trauma, attachment wounds and ongoing anxiety.He also draws on solution-focused ideas that zoom in on small changes that make a real difference. These techniques help people build practical steps towards goals without getting stuck on every detail of the problem.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Barry will work with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals and preferences and will adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online sessions make that collaboration flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face work from different locations, phone sessions suit people with lighter bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera, and live chat or text messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on progress and practical change.
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