About Simon
Simon Barkley helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, anger and low self-esteem. He supports people facing grief, trauma and major life changes. He also helps with sleeping problems, career concerns and compassion fatigue.
Simon draws on a mix of practical talking approaches to help people feel steadier and more capable. Simon works in a direct, down-to-earth way. He treats people as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
How Simon works
Sessions focus on small, practical steps alongside talking about difficult feelings. He aims to make things clearer so people can make choices that suit their lives. He uses methods from client-centred and cognitive behavioural therapy alongside existential ideas and motivational interviewing.
Those approaches help with changing unhelpful thoughts, finding meaning, and boosting motivation when habits need to change. Simon also draws on relationship-focused methods for communication and connection work. Simon has eight years’ experience and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
He has worked with people dealing with bereavement, addiction, trauma, relationship breakdown and anger, among other concerns. This background shapes a practical, goal-focused style. Sessions tend to include gentle listening, clear reflections and agreed actions between meetings.
People can expect straightforward language and help deciding what to try next. Simon aims for a collaborative pace so people leave sessions with something useful to act on.
Simon lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Simon works with
The areas below are the ones Simon selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| 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
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding from your point of view. It helps people who need a calm, reflective space to work through feelings and clarify what matters to them. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and helps people try new ways of thinking and behaving to ease symptoms. Motivational interviewing is a collaborative, goal-focused way to boost personal motivation and resolve mixed feelings about change.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Simon will talk with you about your needs, goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. That choice is reviewed as therapy progresses so the plan fits what is actually helpful for you.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let you have a face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, quick reflections between sessions or a more gradual way of sharing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping a steady path of support.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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