Barbara Josik, BACP

Barbara Josik is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with four years of experience. She focuses on concerns such as anxiety, depression, relationship stress, grief, self-esteem and anger. She also helps with parenting strain, career issues, trauma, addiction and life transitions.

Barbara offers sessions that begin with an initial meeting to discuss what brought someone to counselling. That first session is for getting to know each other and clarifying how she works. She uses regular weekly sessions of around fifty minutes as the usual pattern and can increase frequency when needed.

Her approach combines psychodynamic ideas with client-centred listening. She pays attention to how past experiences and current patterns link together. This can help people notice repeated reactions and make different choices in daily life.

She also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques and solution-focused work to address concrete problems. Those methods are used to notice unhelpful thinking and try practical steps for change. Mindfulness practices are offered too for managing stress and difficult emotions in the moment.

In sessions Barbara talks through whatever is on a client’s mind, even things that feel small. She has worked in a range of mental health and therapeutic settings supporting people with loss, trauma, family strains and emotional overwhelm. The first meeting helps decide whether to continue and what the short-term goals might be.

How her approaches translate to online counselling