Barbara Anzalone, BACP

Barbara Anzalone is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with four years of professional experience. She works with people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression. Barbara also helps clients who are managing relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse. Her approach is warm and respectful. She says conversations and care are tailored to each person's needs. Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and move at a practical pace. Barbara brings particular attention to issues around attachment and abandonment. She also supports people facing body image concerns, guilt, shame and isolation. Communication problems, control issues and life transitions such as divorce or pregnancy are included in her work. She helps with panic attacks, mood disorders and post-traumatic stress by breaking things down into manageable steps. Forgiveness, rebuilding self-love and finding life purpose are common themes in longer term work. Sessions are offered in English and Italian, and international clients are accepted. Barbara aims to create a calm, compassionate space where people can talk through what feels hardest and try new ways of coping. If deciding to try therapy feels daunting, she recognises that first step takes courage and offers practical support to help people move forward.

Therapeutic approaches for online support

Barbara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns, then try new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety and low mood. This is useful for panic attacks, mood disorders and everyday worry.

Another strand of her work concentrates on processing traumatic experiences and reducing their ongoing impact. This involves pacing conversations, building coping skills and gently working through distressing memories to lessen their hold on daily life. It is often applied for post-traumatic stress and abuse-related difficulties.

Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or adapt approaches according to their goals, needs and preferences. That shared decision-making helps shape a plan that fits the client's life.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls suit longer conversations, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing, paced reflection. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while staying connected with a registered or accredited professional.