The Counselling Room

You're Not Broken.
You Learned to Survive.

Whatever brought you here, something in you already knows it’s time.

Counselling for children, young people, adults, and families — emotionally focused, attachment-informed, and genuinely deep.

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You are not alone

Do Any of These Feel a Little Too Close to Home?

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You've been carrying something for a long time and you're not sure you can keep carrying it alone.

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Your child is struggling and nothing you do seems to reach them.

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Your family is navigating a separation and everyone is affected — differently, and all at once.

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You've tried counselling before. Something didn't reach you. You're ready for the kind of work that goes deeper than skills and strategies.

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You're not sure what you need. You just know something has to change.

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You are not alone

Do Any of These Feel a Little Too Close to Home?

01

You've been carrying something for a long time and you're not sure you can keep carrying it alone.

02

Your child is struggling and nothing you do seems to reach them.

03

Your family is navigating a separation and everyone is affected — differently, and all at once.

04

You've tried counselling before. Something didn't reach you. You're ready for the kind of work that goes deeper than skills and strategies.

05

You're not sure what you need. You just know something has to change.

Person sitting alone in soft natural light, contemplative

You are not alone

Do Any of These Feel a Little Too Close to Home?

01

You've been carrying something for a long time and you're not sure you can keep carrying it alone.

02

Your child is struggling and nothing you do seems to reach them.

03

Your family is navigating a separation and everyone is affected — differently, and all at once.

04

You've tried counselling before. Something didn't reach you. You're ready for the kind of work that goes deeper than skills and strategies.

05

You're not sure what you need. You just know something has to change.

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Sometimes people arrive here not because of a single event, but because something has quietly been building for years — and the body, or the mind, or simply the ability to keep going, has finally said: no more. What we tend to call burnout or breakdown is rarely a sudden illness. It is, more often, the accumulated weight of feelings that were never properly tended to. A long illness finally making itself known. The work we do here is not crisis management. It is the slower, more important work of understanding what was already there — and finally giving it somewhere to go. 

Sometimes people arrive here not because of a single event, but because something has quietly been building for years — and the body, or the mind, or simply the ability to keep going, has finally said: no more. What we tend to call burnout or breakdown is rarely a sudden illness. It is, more often, the accumulated weight of feelings that were never properly tended to. A long illness finally making itself known. The work we do here is not crisis management. It is the slower, more important work of understanding what was already there — and finally giving it somewhere to go. 

HOW I WORK

My Approach

Most people arrive having tried, for a long time, to manage things alone. What they find here isn't new skills or strategies — it's a different understanding of what's been happening underneath, where real change takes hold.

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Emotionally Focused

I work at the level of emotion, not behaviour or technique. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is rigorously researched and goes to the root.

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Emotionally Focused

I work at the level of emotion, not behaviour or technique. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is rigorously researched and goes to the root.

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Attachment-informed

Everyone I work with is navigating disconnection, from others, themselves, or both, and I help them build security.

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Attachment-informed

Everyone I work with is navigating disconnection, from others, themselves, or both, and I help them build security.

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For everyone in the family

I work with children from age six, young people, adults, parents, and whole families. The approach adapts, but the depth never does.

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For everyone in the family

I work with children from age six, young people, adults, parents, and whole families. The approach adapts, but the depth never does.

"The most important thing is not the technique. It's whether someone can truly meet you where you are."
Sabrina Barbara

Meet Your Therapist

I'm Sabrina Barbara

Learn More About Me

Relationships are the most important and the most complicated thing in most people's lives. I came to this work through twenty years of portrait photography and a decade in high-pressure crisis roles — learning to read emotional worlds, stay steady under strain, and see what was real beneath what was presented. It turns out that's exactly what couples in distress need.

I'm an Emotionally Focused Therapy-trained couples counsellor and a Life Member of ICEEFT — the international organisation founded by the late Dr. Sue Johnson that sets the standard for how Emotionally Focused Therapy is taught and practised worldwide. It works with the emotions and attachment needs underneath your arguments, not just the arguments themselves — because that's where the real work is.

Relationships are the most important and most complicated thing in most people’s lives. I know this not just as a counsellor — but as someone who has lived it.

My parents separated when I was five. I grew up in a household that kept changing — new people, shifting dynamics, the ground moving in ways nobody quite talked about. Later, I married. Then I separated. I became a single mother of two.

What I’ve learned — from all of that, and from years of sitting with people in pain — is that separation does not have to mean permanent damage. With the right support, it can become one of the most clarifying and growth-filled experiences of your life.

  • ICEEFT Life Member

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy-trained

  • NMAS Accredited Mediator

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Years working one-to-one with people

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People I've worked with closely

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Languages - English & German

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How I Can Help

Counselling for Every
Stage of Life

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Individual Counselling

For adults navigating grief, loss, transition, or separation — or simply the weight of being human and carrying too much. Warm, deep, and genuinely useful.

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Individual Counselling

For adults navigating grief, loss, transition, or separation — or simply the weight of being human and carrying too much. Warm, deep, and genuinely useful.

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Child & Youth Counselling

For children from age 6 and young people of all ages. Play-based for younger children, emotionally focused and narrative-based for older ones.

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Child & Youth Counselling

For children from age 6 and young people of all ages. Play-based for younger children, emotionally focused and narrative-based for older ones.

Post-Separation Family Repair

Family Counselling

For families navigating something together or separately. Flexible, attachment-informed support, focused entirely on what your family actually needs.

Post-Separation Family Repair

Family Counselling

For families navigating something together or separately. Flexible, attachment-informed support, focused entirely on what your family actually needs.

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Separation Counselling

Ongoing support through the emotional, relational, and practical landscape of separation, not a course or mediation, but deep, counselling.

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Separation Counselling

Ongoing support through the emotional, relational, and practical landscape of separation, not a course or mediation, but deep, counselling.

Real Stories

Words from People I've Had the Honour of Working With

We came to Dr. Mitchell as a last resort. Two years later we're stronger than we've ever been. She gave us tools we still use every single day.

James & Claire, London

The premarital counseling sessions with Dr. Mitchell were the best investment we made before our wedding. We understood each other on a completely different level.

Michael & Priya, Manchester

I was skeptical about therapy but Dr. Mitchell made us both feel so safe and heard from the very first session. Genuinely life changing.

David & Sarah, Birmingham

Clients' reflections coming soon...

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