About Barbara
Barbara Josik offers a somatic-informed counselling approach that links body awareness with talking therapy. She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can start to make sense of difficult feelings. Her manner is warm and compassionate, and she aims for straightforward, practical conversations that feel manageable.
She uses client-centred work alongside psychodynamic ideas to help people notice patterns from their past. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and mindfulness are drawn on when thinking and day-to-day coping are the focus.
Background and approach
Somatic work is used to help people tune into bodily signals connected to stress, trauma or anxiety. Barbara has four years of experience working in a range of mental health settings. That background means she has supported people with common problems such as anxiety, depression and grief as well as relational issues and stress.
She also helps with concerns like self-esteem, addiction and compassion fatigue. Sessions are typically weekly and last about fifty minutes, with flexibility if a different rhythm is needed. Work proceeds at a pace the client is comfortable with and focuses on what is most pressing in their life.
The initial meeting is a chance to share what brought someone to therapy and to decide together how to proceed. Barbara works in English and Polish and is based in the United Kingdom. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, which is the credential shown in her profile.
If someone prefers talking through the body as well as words, her somatic focus may be a helpful fit.
How somatic and talking approaches work online
Barbara combines somatic work with client-centred and cognitive behavioural approaches to support people in online sessions. Somatic Therapy encourages noticing bodily sensations and breath to understand stress and trauma responses, which can help with anxiety and sleep problems. Client-centred work focuses on listening and reflecting so the person feels heard and able to explore what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and develop new ways of coping for issues like low mood or worry.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods suit a person's needs and goals. Over the first few sessions they will check in about what feels useful and adjust the work accordingly so it fits the person's preferences.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make sessions more flexible. These options allow people to connect from home, at work or while travelling and to choose the format that feels safest and most practical. The variety of formats can support different kinds of work, from reflective conversations on video to short, focused check-ins via text.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Polish