About Barbara
Barbara Farrell is a licensed professional counselor in New Jersey with ten years of experience. She focuses on practical help for everyday struggles like parenting, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, stress, and life changes. She works in a straightforward way and aims to help people use their own strengths to move forward.
Barbara centers sessions on the client's story and goals. She listens first, then helps set clear, manageable steps for change.
Background and approach
Sessions often cover coping skills, problem-solving, and ways to build motivation and confidence. Her practice also supports people dealing with addiction, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, sleep difficulties, and mood disorders such as bipolar. Additional areas of focus include attachment difficulties, caregiver stress, body image concerns, codependency, communication problems, and divorce-related issues.
This range allows her to tailor discussions to whatever feels most pressing to the person in the room. Barbara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and keeps explanations simple, so strategies can be tried between sessions. She encourages small experiments and adjustments that fit daily life.
The aim is steady progress rather than sudden fixes. People who want a collaborative, practical style may find her approach helpful. She supports exploration of values, goals, and workable routines.
Sessions are offered in English and reflect a focus on real-world solutions.
How evidence-based approaches fit into online therapy
Barbara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on concrete skills and step-by-step change. One common approach she uses involves teaching coping skills and behavioral strategies to manage anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and mood symptoms. These are practical tools you can try between sessions to see what helps.Another frequent focus is building self-esteem and motivation through goal setting and small experiments. This approach breaks larger problems into doable steps and helps people test new behaviors in everyday life. It can be helpful for parenting challenges, relationship concerns, and recovery from setbacks.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, explain options in plain terms, and together decide which techniques to try first. Plans are adjusted over time based on what works for you.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let you have a face-to-face conversation from wherever you are, while phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between appointments or for shorter updates. These options let clients fit care around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English