Adam Barrett

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Psychotherapists and Counsellors

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

My experience includes working for many years with offenders in the prison service, working as a staff counsellor at London Fire Brigade, and as a lead therapist at Nightingale Hospital (psychiatric). I specialise in working with anxiety, depression, trauma, and sex & relationships.

Sexual identity:

Gay
Other

Gender identity: Male

Gender history: As assigned at birth

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: No

Qualifications - Links to websites:

MA: Gestalt Psychotherapy Theory
Diploma: Relationship and Psychosexual Therapy
Diploma: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Certificate: Humanistic and Psychodynamic Counselling

Other professional training:

Mindfulness Teacher Training
Somatic Trauma Therapy
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
EMDR

Qualifications - Additional:

Award	Awarding body	Year of award

Experience and approach:

The aim is always to improve your quality of life. This means getting a clear idea of what you are hoping for, and figuring out what stops you from moving from where you are to where you want to be. You might hope for: greater fulfilment at work; a richer life outside of work; more fulfilling connections with others; a healthier romantic relationship; or a better sex life. Once we know what we are working towards, we can agree on a strategy for getting there. It usually involves developing your awareness of your habitual processes that keep you stuck; working through blocked emotions or unfinished business from the past, and expanding your repertoire of available resources and strategies for getting what you want or need.

I draw from a broad range of approaches and adjust to the needs of the individual. In this sense, we create the therapy together. Things that might inform our way of working: our respective personalities; what you are working on and towards; what you have tried before; my training and experience.

What remains consistent in all of my work is that I encourage an attitude of present-centred awareness and curiosity. This means paying attention to what is going on inside and between us during our conversations. What we notice will inform the choices that we make in our work together. I find there are two key benefits to working in this way: (1) there is a wealth of useful information to be found in the present moment; (2) it provides a training environment for developing a helpful way of relating to yourself and others.

Approaches: