Barbora Bruff, BACP

Barbora Bruff offers a straightforward, compassionate approach to therapy. She works with people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression and addiction. Barbora draws on three years of practice in the United Kingdom and brings calm, practical help to difficult moments.

She has particular familiarity with trauma and abuse and with compassion fatigue from working in critical care settings. That background shapes how she listens and responds. Conversations focus on what feels most pressing and on small, manageable steps forward.

Barbora adapts each session to the person in front of her. She aims to make sessions clear and purposeful rather than jargon-filled. Together, she and the client set realistic goals and try different ways to reach them.

Her wider interests include loss, ageing and end-of-life concerns, body image and fertility issues, and the emotional effects of serious illness. She also pays attention to attachment patterns, guilt and shame, and postnatal difficulties.

Sessions can also address process addictions, self-harm urges, and the stresses common to first responders. Barbora speaks English and Slovak, and she is able to work with international clients. Her registration is with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.

People who choose Barbora can expect a collaborative, steady approach. She supports clients as they try new ways of coping and make changes at their own pace.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Barbora uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage distress and build new coping skills. One approach focuses on practical coping strategies and behaviour change to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression; sessions involve setting clear, achievable tasks and checking progress together. Another approach emphasises working through trauma and its effects by allowing space to tell difficult stories at a pace that feels tolerable, while learning skills to manage intense feelings.

Finding the right approach is part of the work and will be decided together. Barbora will help clients choose methods that match their goals, preferences and the problems they bring. She adjusts pace and tools as progress is made and as needs evolve.

Online therapy offers flexibility for different life rhythms. Video calls let people read facial cues and have more conversational sessions, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, for working through thoughts between appointments, or for people who prefer writing to speaking. Registered or accredited professionals can use these options to make therapy fit around work, caregiving and travel commitments.