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About me

Barry Golten online counselling and in Belper using IFS
Barry Golten online counselling using IFS
Barry Golten online counselling and in Belper using IFS
Barry Golten online counselling using IFS
My Story
Barry Golten online counselling and in Belper using IFS

Having initially trained as an Integrative Counsellor in the late 1990's life, family and career took me into using the skills I was developing in the charity support sector - firstly as a support worker and for the 19 years as a manager.

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During this time I continued to develop the ways I had learned to help others and myself. Around 2008 I moved in a different direction,  becoming interested in Solution Focused Brief Therapy and I qualified in this approach in 2012 leading me to offer therapy, coaching and training in this model.  

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From 2021 until 2024 I worked at KCA Training as a Trainer/Consultant delivering training in Trauma, Attachment and Resilience, which developed my understanding of trauma and neuroscience.

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In 2023 I discovered Internal Family System (IFS) and have become immersed in its ideas. I started my training in this in 2024. (For a fuller explanation of this approach see here )

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In recent years I have become more interested in bringing all my training and experience together into a way of working which offers:

  • a person-centred belief in the benefit of welcoming all aspects of ourselves - even the ones we don't much like.

  • a psycho-dynamic understanding of the impact of past events and relationships on how we operate in the present.

  • a solution focused confidence that buried within us are the resources to help propel us in the directions we want to go.

  • an IFS perspective in understanding the role of parts in protecting us from past hurts and the self as a path to healing.

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These approaches are contained within a safe, secure, regular relationship of trust. I will be fully present in your sessions with you and am prepared to join you on a journey of exploration, hope and possibility

My Training
Barry Golten online counselling and in Belper using IFS
Diploma in Counselling
University of the West of England 1998

Diploma in Solution Focused Practice

BRIEF - London 2012

Internal Family Systems - Level 1 - 2024

“Barry was able to help me contextualise issues in my life that I had never been able to before. By reframing the issues I was facing I was able to make rapid improvement, beyond what I could even have imagined when I started seeing him.”

Client - Male, 20's

Barry Golten

Counsellor - Registered Member BACP 386015

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