
A Problem In the Family (and navigating CAMHS) with psychotherapist John Cavanagh
This is the last episode, episode six, in Series 8 and in it I talk to UKCP registered family and systemic psychotherapist and John Cavanagh who is also a registered mental health nurse. John speciali...
1 Aug 20241h 10min

Family Estrangement with Psychotherapist Chris Mills
Very early on in my career as The Guardian's Agony Aunt the letters started coming in about family estrangements - the "should I cut X out of my life" style questions. Back then, cutting a family memb...
25 Jul 202450min

Attachment with psychotherapist Dr Graham Music
What is attachment and how does attachment theory different from the primary real-life attachment we learnt as babies? The two often get confused. In this episode I talk to child, adolescent and adult...
18 Jul 202455min

Forensic Psychotherapy with clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr Stephen Blumenthal
Forensic psychotherapy is psychotherapy with people who have committed criminal offences. In this episode I talk with clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr Stephen Blumenthal who is registered wi...
11 Jul 202455min

Self-sabotage with psychotherapist Ryan Bennett-Clarke
Did you know that procrastination, risky behaviour, blaming others and even infidelity may be a sign of self-sabotage? There are a host of other symptoms, too. In this, episode 2 or Series 8, I discus...
4 Jul 202453min

Baby Loss with Professor Lucy Easthope
Welcome to series 8 of Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri. This episode was Professor Lucy Easthope's idea as it’s something she really wanted to talk about and I’m honoured she has trusted me with ...
27 Jun 20241h 6min

Birth Trauma with Kim Thomas, journalist and CEO of The Birth Trauma Association
This is the final episode in Series 7. It's about birth trauma and I speak with journalist, author and CEO of The BTA, Kim Thomas.We talk about what birth trauma is, what can cause it (we do not go in...
21 Mar 202451min

Envy with psychotherapist Ryan Bennett-Clarke
Interviewing Ryan Bennett-Clarke for my Guardian column - about something else entirely - we got talking about envy. And what he had to say fair blew my mind.What is envy? How does it differ from jeal...
14 Mar 202456min



















