Barbara Josik, BACP

Barbara Josik is an integrative psychodynamic counsellor who offers a warm, non-judgemental and compassionate space for people to explore difficult thoughts, feelings, and life events. She works from a psychodynamic framework that supports gradual insight into aspects of experience that have previously been outside of awareness, helping clients notice patterns that contribute to feeling stuck. She combines this core approach with a flexible mix of other modalities to shape therapy around each person’s needs, drawing on humanistic, trauma-informed, body psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, Gestalt techniques, and inner child work to address emotional and relational challenges.

Sessions are typically scheduled weekly for fifty minutes, with the option to increase frequency depending on availability and clinical need. The initial meeting is intended as a mutual opportunity to introduce what has brought someone to therapy and to explain how she works - from there, she and the client decide together whether to proceed and what form the work should take.

Barbara has experience in a variety of mental health and therapeutic settings, supporting people with anxiety, depression, abuse, social anxiety, anger management, trauma, relationship and family difficulties, stress, loss and bereavement, low self-esteem and related concerns. She is a member of the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which reflects her professional commitment to recognised practice standards.