Barbara Craig, BACP

Barbara Craig is a fully qualified and accredited therapist who works with individual adults and with couples and other relationship configurations. She has experience supporting people through depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, loss and disenfranchised grief, family difficulties, relationship strain and life transitions, and she provides help to those affected by domestic abuse and coercive control. Barbara offers both open-ended therapy and short-term counselling in English and Polish.

She creates a non-judgemental, empathetic space where clients can explore emotional struggles and real-life problems. Committed to multicultural support, Barbara advocates for dignity and value for all and welcomes people from diverse backgrounds and protected characteristics, taking care to appreciate individual needs while delivering her services. As an integrative practitioner she adapts her approach to each client, drawing on a range of theoretical orientations to suit unique concerns.

Barbara emphasises the importance of a trusting therapist-client relationship as a central element of change. Her work integrates psychodynamic thinking, including attachment theory, person-centred principles, cognitive-behavioural techniques, Acceptance and Commitment approaches, and family and systemic ideas. She recognises that reaching out for help is a brave step and would be privileged to support clients as they explore and reclaim a more authentic sense of self. Barbara is BACP registered - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - a professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists.

Approaches That Guide Online Therapeutic Work

Barbara draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify personal values, build psychological flexibility and take committed action toward a meaningful life. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression and difficulties with avoidance patterns.

Attachment-Based Therapy is used to explore how early relationships shape present-day patterns, helping clients understand relational difficulties, attachment injuries and issues that affect intimacy or caregiving roles.

Client-Centred Therapy provides a supportive, empathic environment in which the therapist follows the client’s lead, helping people build self-awareness, self-compassion and stronger decision-making abilities during life transitions or times of emotional distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and Barbara works collaboratively with clients and registered professionals to identify methods that match each person’s needs, goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time to ensure the work remains relevant and effective for the individual.

Online therapy with Barbara is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which makes scheduling more flexible and allows clients to access support from different locations. These options can make it easier to maintain continuity of care during busy or changing life circumstances and support ongoing progress between sessions.