Barry Golten

Barry Golten trained as an Integrative Counsellor in the late 1990s. Life, family and career led him into the charity support sector, where he worked first as a support worker and then for 19 years as a manager.

In 2021 he joined KCA Training as a Trainer/Consultant, delivering training in Trauma, Attachment and Resilience. Over the years he continued to refine the approaches he uses to help others and himself.

Around 2008 he developed an interest in Solution Focused Brief Therapy and he qualified in that approach in 2012. Following this qualification he began offering therapy, coaching and training using the Solution Focused model, drawn to its assumption that it is not always necessary to fully understand the problem in order to move forward.

More recently he has brought together his varied training and experience into a coherent way of working that combines a person-centred belief in welcoming all parts of the self, a psychodynamic awareness of how past events and relationships affect present functioning, and a solution-focused confidence that people contain resources to propel them in the directions they want to go. These approaches are offered within a safe, regular relationship built on trust. Barry will be fully present in sessions and is prepared to join clients on a journey of exploration, hope and possibility.