Randa Barnes

Randa Barnes uses a person-centred, attachment-informed approach to help people manage stress, anxiety and relationship difficulties. She combines practical strategies with reflective conversation so people can build skills and feel clearer about next steps. Randa draws on 13 years of practice and brings warmth and cultural sensitivity to sessions.

Her work often focuses on anxiety, depression, bereavement and trauma, as well as addictions, eating and sleeping problems, and ADHD. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, family difficulties and parenting stresses. Randa pays attention to how early attachments and family patterns can influence current behaviour and feelings.

In sessions she mixes client-centred listening with cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness exercises. This blend is used to spot unhelpful patterns, practise new responses and build coping tools. She also includes existential ideas to help people find meaning when facing difficult life changes.

Randa has experience working with a wide range of concerns including LGBT issues, gender dysphoria, bipolar mood issues, grief, anger and self-esteem. Additional focus areas she attends to include abandonment and attachment difficulties, caregiver stress, body image and hoarding-related concerns.

She offers therapy in English and Arabic and works with people from varied cultural backgrounds. Randa aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk through problems, try out new ways of relating and make practical changes.

How Randa’s approaches work in online therapy

Randa commonly blends attachment-based ideas with client-centred care to help people understand relationship patterns and feel heard. Attachment-based work looks at how early connections influence current relationships and helps people change repeating patterns that cause distress.

She also uses client-centred therapy which focuses on listening, empathy and supporting clients to find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioural therapy is used alongside these approaches to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments to change behaviour and mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be worked out together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt techniques over time so they match the client’s needs.

Please confirm the current session options before booking as the biography does not list specific formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also suit people who prefer working from a quieter room or who need to balance therapy with work or caregiving commitments.