The Counselling Room

Sabrina Barbara is an Emotionally Focused Therapy-informed counsellor and ICEEFT Life Member based in Wellington and Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. She works with children from age six, young people, adults, parents, and whole families — specialising in grief, loss, anxiety, life transitions, and the emotional impact of family separation.

The Counselling Room was the second site in a four-site ecosystem built for Sabrina's practice. Where the first site (TheRelationshipRoom.nz) focused on couples and relationships, this one needed to speak to a much wider and more varied audience — people arriving from very different points of pain, at very different stages of life.

The brief wasn't just "build a counselling website." It was: build a site that could meet a grieving parent, a struggling teenager's family, a burnt-out adult, and a child going through their parents' separation — all on the same page — and make each of them feel genuinely seen.