About Barbara
Barbara Brown is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. She is direct and practical in her work and aims to help individuals find ways to cope and move forward. Her approach is down-to-earth and rooted in hearing each person's story and strengths.
She brings 29 years of experience across settings that included children, adolescents, adults, and older adults.
Background and approach
That background means she has seen a wide range of life challenges, from mood disorders and bipolar concerns to compassion fatigue and seasonal affective disorder. Barbara supports people dealing with relationship strain, self-esteem struggles, trauma and abuse, and the emotional impact of aging or end-of-life matters. In sessions she matches methods to the person rather than using one fixed method for everyone.
She draws on client-centered work, emotionally-focused ideas, mindfulness, and narrative approaches to help people reframe their stories and practice new ways of coping. Expect practical strategies and gentle pushes to try different perspectives and behaviors. Barbara emphasizes collaboration and pacing based on each person's needs.
She focuses on helping people notice strengths, build self-love, and take concrete steps toward better mood and day-to-day functioning. Reaching out for help is often hard, and she aims to make that step feel understandable and worthwhile. Her practice supports those navigating midlife shifts, hospice and end-of-life concerns, communication problems, forgiveness work, and young adult challenges.
Sessions are offered in English and reflect nearly three decades of working with varied life transitions.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Barbara uses client-centered therapy to focus sessions on each person's priorities, listening carefully and shaping goals around what matters most. This approach helps when someone needs practical support for managing stress, grief, or life transitions.She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas to help people identify and understand core feelings that drive difficult patterns. This work can be useful for shifting relationship dynamics, building emotional awareness, and addressing recurring distress that affects daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the individual to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for a full conversational session, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed, and messaging is convenient for brief updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping the focus on making steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English