Barbara Cross, NCPS

Barbara Cross is an NCPS counsellor working in the United Kingdom with nine years of experience. She helps people who are managing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, relationship strain and parenting challenges.

She uses a pluralistic, client-focused approach that draws on Client-Centred Therapy and Solution-Focused ideas. That means sessions are adaptable and built around what the client needs to address now. She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Narrative Therapy and Hypnotherapy as tools when they suit a client's goals.

Barbara aims for straightforward work that looks at thought patterns, everyday habits and the stories people tell about themselves. In practice this can mean learning practical skills from CBT, talking through recurring relationship patterns, or using narrative techniques to reframe difficult experiences. Hypnotherapy may be offered as a way to support specific changes when appropriate.

Her background includes nine years helping people with family-related concerns and parenting stress alongside issues such as abandonment, attachment problems, codependency, divorce and fatherhood issues. She also supports people facing career pressure, caregiving strain and ageing or geriatric concerns.

Sessions focus on practical steps as well as exploration of past experience. People who come for help can expect collaboration on clear goals, tools to manage difficult moments, and time to reflect on patterns that keep them stuck.

Approaches used in online sessions