About Sandra
Sandra Barrett is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who uses relational and client-focused approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety and relationship strains. She has five years of experience supporting people through grief, confidence worries and addictive behaviours. Sandra works with people across varied life stages and backgrounds, including LGBT clients and those facing career changes or chronic health concerns.
Her work begins with listening closely to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Conversations are shaped around what matters most to the client, whether that is coping with loss, improving self-esteem, or tackling anxiety that affects daily life. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships influence current patterns. Sandra also uses client-centred methods to make room for the person's own priorities, and solution-focused techniques to set small, practical goals.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone is ready to change habits or address addictions. Psychodynamic ideas are woven in when exploring repeated patterns and deeper emotional themes. Sessions aim to be straightforward and collaborative.
Sandra explains options, checks what is helpful, and adjusts the approach as work progresses. This lets people try different ways of working without pressure. She speaks English and sees clients online from the UK and internationally.
Getting started involves a short questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client's routine.
How Sandra's approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. Online sessions can use this approach to notice patterns in relationships and to rehearse new ways of relating in everyday life. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own priorities and pace, offering empathic listening and acceptance so the client can lead the conversation and find their own solutions.Finding the right blend of methods is part of the work. Sandra will discuss options and try approaches collaboratively, checking in about what feels helpful and adapting the plan to the client's goals and circumstances. This shared decision-making helps build a practical way forward that fits the person's life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing encouragement, and when someone prefers written communication. These formats make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and other commitments, while keeping the focus on useful, goal-oriented work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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