Barbara Cross, NCPS

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding your feelings and values. It gives space to talk and helps you to build self-awareness and confidence through empathic listening and reflection. This approach is useful when people want to make sense of their emotions and gain steadier self-support.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behaviour. It teaches clear, practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and to develop coping skills. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression and stress because it supplies concrete steps you can practise between sessions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Barbara will discuss goals and preferences and adapt methods as you progress, mixing person-centred listening with CBT tools or hypnotherapy when it fits the work. You remain involved in choosing which techniques to try and how quickly to move.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when you want visual connection. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support or when typing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options make it possible to continue therapy across distance and differing schedules while still focusing on the same therapeutic goals.