Barbara Cross , NCPS

Barbara Cross is a UK-registered psychotherapeutic counsellor with NCPS accreditation and nine years of clinical experience supporting people through a wide range of emotional challenges. She practices pluralistically, drawing on person-centred and solution-focused principles to shape flexible, collaborative therapy that adapts to each person rather than forcing a single model. Her background includes work with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low motivation, self-esteem struggles, relationship difficulties, parenting concerns, hoarding, career uncertainty, and depression.

Barbara brings practical tools alongside reflective, exploratory work. She uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques to help clients identify unhelpful thinking and develop skills to manage emotions and behaviours. Her person-centred stance aims to create space for clients to explore beliefs and feelings with empathy and nonjudgmental understanding. She also integrates hypnotherapy and narrative elements when appropriate to assist with deeper patterns and moments of emotional stuckness.

Sessions are shaped to the individual, with an emphasis on increasing self-compassion, resilience, and clarity about next steps. Barbara works respectfully and sensitively with issues such as attachment concerns, codependency, communication problems, caregiver stress, and life transitions, guiding people toward greater confidence and more constructive relationships with themselves and others.