What I offer

Individual Counselling

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Most people who arrive here have been carrying something for a long time. Not a crisis — something quieter than that. A weight that has slowly become the background of their days. They may not have a name for it. They just know that something has to shift
Most people who arrive here have been carrying something for a long time. Not a crisis — something quieter than that. A weight that has slowly become the background of their days. They may not have a name for it. They just know that something has to shift

What this is

A Space That's
Entirely Yours

Individual counselling is a space that belongs entirely to you. No agenda but yours. No fixed programme. We work at the level of emotion — not behaviour, not insight, not technique — because that is where lasting change actually happens.

My clinical approach is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) — one of the most rigorously researched therapeutic models in the world. Applied to individual work, it helps people understand what they are actually feeling, where it comes from, and how to relate to themselves and others with more security and less pain.

"You cannot think your way out of what you feel. You have to move through it — and that's what I'm here for.”
Sabrina Barbara

THE PROCESS

What Working Together Looks Like

Who It's For

Adults navigating any of the following:

  • Grief and bereavement — the loss of a person, a relationship, a version of your life

  • Separation and divorce — the emotional landscape before, during, and after

  • Life transitions — the moments when who you were no longer fits who you are becoming

  • Anxiety and the quiet dread that has become ordinary

  • Burnout — the accumulated weight of feelings that were never properly tended to

  • The feeling that something is missing, even when nothing is obviously wrong

  • Anyone who has tried counselling before and found it didn't quite reach them

what to expect

What to Expect

Sessions are 50 minutes, weekly or fortnightly. We begin with a free 20-minute Zoom call to talk about what's brought you here and whether I'm the right person to help. There is no fixed programme and no pressure to have things figured out before you arrive. I follow your lead. We end when you're ready — not on a schedule.

"Change doesn't come from new ideas or new behaviours. It comes from new experience. That's what I'm here to provide."
Sabrina Barbara

A Note on Burnout

Sometimes people arrive 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. If that is where you are, you are in the right place. This is not crisis management. It is the slower, more important work of understanding what was already there — and finally giving it somewhere to go.

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