Counsellor profile
Barbara Cross, NCPS
United Kingdom
Counsellor - Anger and Relationship issues
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- CredentialsNCPS
- RegistrationNCPS, United Kingdom / NCS19-10180
- Experience9 years
- LanguagesEnglish
- LocationUnited Kingdom
About
- CBT techniques
- Hypnotherapy options
- Motivational interviewing
About Barbara
Barbara Cross is a counsellor registered with the NCPS in the United Kingdom and has nine years of professional experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting pressures, career strain, and anger. Sessions aim to be practical and collaborative so people can manage day-to-day struggles more effectively.
Barbara takes a pluralistic, client-focused approach that mixes person-centred ideas with solution-focused work. She uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to identify thought patterns that feed unhelpful reactions. She also draws on narrative techniques and motivational interviewing to help people reframe difficulties and find reasons to change.
Hypnotherapy is part of her toolkit where appropriate, used alongside other methods to support concentration, reduce stress, or work through stuck patterns. She describes therapy as a cooperative process - the client’s experience shapes which methods are used and how sessions proceed. This keeps the work practical and grounded in everyday life.
Her background includes supporting people through relationship breakdown, caregiving stress, abandonment issues, control and communication problems, and the emotional effects of ageing. She also works with problems linked to dissociation, codependency and commitment concerns. The focus is on clear steps clients can try between sessions to reduce tension and improve coping.
Barbara offers help in English and is open to international clients. Before booking, clients are asked to confirm current session options and details via the service's online matching process.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Barbara commonly uses Client-Centred Therapy ideas and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her work. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on exploring the client’s beliefs and feelings with an emphasis on understanding their perspective. It helps when someone needs to make sense of why they react as they do. CBT looks at thought patterns and behaviours and gives practical exercises to reduce reactivity and manage stress in daily life.She also works with hypnotherapy when it complements other methods. Hypnotherapy is described as a way to support focused attention and relaxation, which can help with stress reduction, confidence, and breaking repetitive patterns. These approaches are explained in straightforward terms and chosen together with the client based on what the client wants to address.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the early work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels workable, then adjust techniques as the sessions progress. That collaborative process helps shape clear steps and between-session tasks that suit the person's life.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current online options before booking. Many people choose online work because it can fit around work or caregiving, reduce travel time, or allow shorter check-ins when that is useful. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists often adapt exercises so they work over distance and within the time people have available.
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Experience
9+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
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What kinds of anger-related problems does she work with?
Barbara works with adults dealing with anger linked to stress, relationship strain, parenting pressures, workplace frustration and ongoing resentment. She also addresses related issues such as control problems and communication difficulties.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is pluralistic and collaborative, mixing person-centred listening with solution-focused steps. Practical tools from CBT and motivational interviewing are used alongside narrative approaches.
How much experience does she have?
Barbara has nine years of professional experience working with a broad range of emotional and behavioural concerns including trauma, anxiety, and low self-esteem.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is registered with the NCPS and practises in the United Kingdom.
Can I work with her if I'm not in the UK?
Sessions are offered to international clients and are conducted in English.
What session formats does she offer?
The original biography does not specify session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking through the service's online matching process.
How are session costs handled?
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I get started with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule your first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is unsafe, use the crisis numbers.