About Barbara
Barbara Edelman is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Missouri who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and grief. She works with concerns around relationships, intimacy, parenting, self-esteem, ADHD, and life transitions. Her tone is practical and calm, aimed at parents and busy adults looking for straightforward support.
Barbara uses clear, conversational language in sessions. She listens first, then helps clients set simple goals they can act on between meetings.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and finding small changes that add up over time. Her background includes a decade of counseling experience in community and clinical settings. That work includes supporting people through divorce, pregnancy transitions, aging challenges, and workplace stress.
She also has experience with issues related to identity, family of origin, and blended family dynamics. Therapy draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness exercises. Those tools are used to help people understand patterns, test new behaviors, and reduce overwhelming reactions.
Meetings often mix talk, practical exercises, and short skill practices. Barbara emphasizes a collaborative relationship. She helps clients identify priorities and chooses strategies that fit their daily life.
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes, with adjustments as needs change.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship so people can identify what matters to them and choose their next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going and teaches practical ways to test new behaviors and reduce distress. Mindfulness therapy uses simple attention and breathing exercises to help people notice feelings without being overwhelmed and to respond more calmly to stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different tools. Together they will try methods that fit the client’s life and adjust the plan over time in a collaborative way.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins and when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can be good for quick check-ins, skill practice, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep up with consistent care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English