Emil Barna

Qualified psychotherapy and counselling services specialising in complex trauma, addiction, stress and anxiety, major life transitions, and confidence-building.

PSYCHOTHERAPIST & COUNSELLOR

Common pain points...

Complex Trauma & PTSD

70% of people experience trauma at some point in their lives. About 10% go on to develop PTSD. Complex PTSD happens when you've gone through a lot of trauma (no matter how 'little' or 'big' these traumas seem to others). Emil helps you learn short-term strategies to manage and offers long-term treatment to overcome trauma.

Self-Awareness

If you want to learn more about yourself, why you are the way you are, boosting self-awareness is a non-negotiable. Emil helps you come to terms with your past so that you can build a better future while being in the present.

Stress & Addiction

Since COVID, more and more people experience stress and anxiety, and turn to destructive behaviours to manage this. The most common: substance use. Emil helps you boost resilience in the face of stress and manage anxiety about the future.

Confidence

When life gets out of hand, confidence suffers. This is especially true when you've been shot down by others, get socially anxious, or have experienced trauma. Emil meets you where you're at and helps you build competence so you can improve your confidence.

Therapies

The body and mind are inclined towards healing. If you graze your knee, cut yourself, or get sick, your body quickly intervenes to help you recover. The same is true for the mind.

Sometimes healing stalls and you're left with recurring fears and anxieties, obsessions and compulsions, traumas and addictions, dreams and memories, thoughts and feelings—and no matter how much you ignore them they stick around. Therapy might be the answer.

At Barna Counselling & Consulting, Emil draws from the following holistic therapies to help address common mental health concerns:

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)
Somatic Experiencing
Radical Exposure Tapping (RET)
Polyvagal-Informed Psychotherapy (a form of Neuropsychotherapy)
Dream Completion Technique
Mindfulness and Meditation
Visualisation Techniques
Motivational Interviewing
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
Existential Psychotherapy
Schema Therapy
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

The therapies above are adapted to you and your presenting concerns to help facilitate the most unique and personalised experience possible.
For more on these therapies, click here.