Barbara Green

I am an accredited counsellor with over 12 years’ experience working with people with depression, feelings of anxiety and unhappiness, people struggling with painful losses, addictions, eating disorders and other forms of self harm including suicidal feelings.  I also have specialist training in and have worked with individuals who have experienced trauma, including childhood sexual abuse, rape and domestic violence. I offer short and long term counselling to individuals and couples. I work in a collaborative and ethical way and I offer a safe, confidential setting where we work at your pace and follow your needs. I am also a qualified Relate couple counsellor and clinical supervisor. As a therapist, I aim to help you make sense of your thoughts, feelings and experiences and to support you in addressing particular problems and in making changes.  I aim to help you create the time and space in which to explore things in greater detail and to become more familiar with our internal world and the things that inspire, motivate and challenge us. The improved insight and self-knowledge gained from therapy can, not only help to ease the distress of the initial problem but can be helpfully applied to other matters and areas of life. Relationships can be very confusing and often it’s hard to disentangle our feelings.  I offer couples’ counselling as well as counselling for individuals who want to explore past relationships or want help with looking more closely at difficulties with new ones. Couples counselling deals with many aspects; there can be a feeling of living increasingly separate lives, struggling with parenting pressures, illness, loss of interest in sex , coping with  affairs and loss of trust and sometimes just not talking to each other anymore. Having a trained person to talk these through with can make the difference between withdrawal, loneliness and disappointment to increased communication and reconnection.