About Barbara
Dr. Barbara Brady is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience. She works with people facing relationship strain, grief, anxiety, parenting challenges, and career stress.
Her approach is straightforward and supportive. She aims to help clients set practical goals and take small steps toward change. Barbara draws on methods that focus on the person and on clear skills.
She uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person's pace and priorities.
Background and approach
She applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also brings in Emotionally-Focused and Gottman ideas for people working on relationships. Sessions are built around goals the client cares about.
Conversations focus on what gets in the way and what can be changed. She encourages concrete action plans and practices that fit daily life. The tone is nonjudgmental and solution oriented.
Her background includes long experience with family and relationship challenges, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, eating and self-esteem struggles, and parenting issues. She also works with adoption and foster care matters, aging and caregiver stress, and fertility and custody topics. People find this style useful when they want practical help for specific problems and steady guidance toward clear steps.
Barbara aims to match methods to each person's needs and helps them try approaches that fit their life and goals.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Dr. Brady uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person's concerns and pace, offering listening and reflection that help clients feel heard and decide goals. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which works well for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Emotionally-Focused and Gottman ideas are applied when relationship patterns and emotional connection are central issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and the problem at hand, then recommend a path forward. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made or new needs emerge.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and relationship work. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or practicing skills between sessions. These options provide flexibility so therapy can fit personal schedules and everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English