Richard Barnardo
Member Status: Accredited
Member No: NCS20-01174
Location: London
Hi, I am Richard and I wanted to share with you a little of what I might be able to offer in terms of support, if you are currently finding life’s challenges hard to navigate alone. I can’t promise to have any easy answers, but I am confidant that together we can bring about positive and meaningful changes to your life. I will carefully work alongside you to explore your thoughts, feelings and actions and to arrive at solutions that are best for you.
In our work together we would be looking at internal problems, as therapy assumes that what goes on within us - so how we think and feel about ourselves - affects our behaviour and relationship with others. Paying careful attention to this allows for growth in understanding ourselves, which can then be used to bring about significant life improvements.
My training is as an Integrative therapist, which is another way of saying I’m qualified to practice a range of therapeutic approaches (such as Person-centred, Psychodynamic & CBT). I offer both short-term counselling and longer-term exploratory therapy. My approach has a significant focus on attachment orientated psychotherapy. This means that we would work together on building a trusting, supportive thereuputic relationship, offering you a safe space to focus on expressing your emotions in healthier, more useful ways. We would remain curious about your past and what emotional strategies you learnt from your caregivers (often our parents) and how you adapted to your environment to become the person that you are today. These important experiences can assist us in our understanding around your ability to form healthy emotional and physical relationships as an adult.
