About Spencer
Spencer Barron is a counsellor with 15 years of experience helping people face stress, anxiety, depression and phobias. He works with many concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, ADHD and self-esteem. Spencer aims to create a steady, human connection so people feel able to start making changes.
Spencer uses an integrative, humanistic style that draws on several methods. Sessions focus on what matters to the person in front of him - their feelings, values and lived experience.
Background and approach
He prefers a conversational, grounded approach and is willing to go into difficult material when it helps the process. His work includes elements of attachment-based and client-centred counselling. That means attention to relationship patterns and listening without judgement.
Cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness practices are also used to help with mood, phobias and unhelpful thinking patterns. Spencer has worked in the NHS and with charities supporting people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and autism. He also runs weekly support groups, workshops and retreats that focus on self-awareness and communication.
He describes himself as a guide who helps people reconnect with their own resources and life experience. He practices in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are available online by video call, phone, live chat or messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
Approaches you can use online with a counsellor
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help identify these patterns and practise new ways of relating. Client-centred therapy focuses on being heard and understood without judgement; this approach helps people feel safer to explore painful thoughts and feelings. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, examines unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood and tackle phobias.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy journey. The counsellor will explore your goals and preferences, and together you will decide what methods to try. That collaborative process means approaches can change as needs shift over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you work face-to-face from different locations, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a shorter break in a workday. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, ongoing support or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep regular sessions while juggling work, care or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- 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
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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