About Douglas
Douglas Barbieri is a counsellor with six years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. He helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief or low self esteem. He also supports those dealing with trauma, depression and related struggles.
Douglas speaks English and Portuguese and works with clients from different countries. Douglas aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about what feels hard. He listens closely and helps clients notice patterns in thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
How Douglas works
That can make confusing reactions easier to understand and manage. His practice blends approaches that encourage self-awareness, practical change and emotion work. He uses client-centred listening to follow what matters to the person in front of him.
He also incorporates cognitive behavioural ideas to challenge unhelpful thinking, and emotionally-focused methods to address painful relationship feelings. Douglas works with a wide range of concerns, including abandonment, attachment difficulties, addiction, body image, chronic illness, dissociation and issues around fatherhood. He can help with grief, guilt, shame and recovering from betrayal or infidelity.
People can expect straightforward, plain-language conversations and practical tools to try between sessions. Douglas encourages small experiments that bring clearer thinking and more choice in everyday life.
Douglas lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Douglas works with
The areas below are the ones Douglas selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| 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 work
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters to the person. The counsellor offers acceptance and reflection so clients can explore feelings and discover their own solutions; this helps with low self esteem, grief and identity questions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses straightforward exercises and small experiments to test unhelpful beliefs and build different habits, which can ease anxiety and depressive thinking.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and sit with strong emotions and understand how these patterns affect relationships and self-worth. It is useful for working through abandonment, attachment difficulties and intense shame.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most useful. Together they will try methods and adjust as needed so the plan fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions suit those with lower bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins and a way to work between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
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