Barbara Josik, BACP

Barbara Josik is an integrative psychodynamic counsellor who offers a compassionate, non-judgemental space for people to explore difficult thoughts, emotions, and life events. Combining psychodynamic insight with humanistic and trauma-informed practices, she helps individuals uncover patterns that have operated outside conscious awareness and work toward greater emotional clarity and relief.

Her approach is built around a range of therapeutic methods tailored to each person, including body-focused work, cognitive behavioral techniques, Gestalt practices, and inner-child work. This flexibility allows the therapy to address emotional, relational, and somatic aspects of experience rather than concentrating on a single model.

Therapy with Barbara is presented as a collaborative process that asks for commitment and patience. Sessions are typically scheduled weekly for fifty minutes, and meetings can be increased when needed and when availability allows. The first session is used as a mutual opportunity to discuss what has brought the person to therapy and to decide together whether her style is a good match.

With four years of professional experience, Barbara has supported people in a variety of mental health and therapeutic settings, assisting those coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and family difficulties, stress, grief and bereavement, low self-esteem, anger, and other emotional challenges. She holds the BACP credential, indicating membership in the professional body for counselling and psychotherapy in the United Kingdom. Barbara works in English and Polish and frames therapy around the whole person, responding to whatever is most pressing in a given session.