About Barbara
Barbara Parker is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado with nine years of experience. She brings direct, practical support to people coping with anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, depression, and life changes. Her background includes work in an inpatient program helping men transition from prison into community settings, which shaped her outlook on recovery and resilience.
Barbara uses a person-centered style. She treats the person in front of her as the expert on their life.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what the client wants to work on and move at a pace the client sets. She does not give advice but helps people sort through thoughts and feelings to find clearer options. Her work relies on approaches that help change thinking and behavior.
She often challenges unhelpful thoughts and supports new actions that reduce distress. She also uses mindfulness and acceptance-based methods to build coping skills and emotional awareness. Practical goals and plans are key in her approach.
After clarifying an issue, she and the client build steps that fit the client's daily life. This can involve small habit changes, communication practice, or strategies for handling cravings and strong emotions. Barbara aims to create a straightforward, steady space for people ready to do the work.
She draws on her clinical experience and military background to stay focused on recovery, skill-building, and real-world results.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values and life goals. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and homework. It often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and problems with mood or behavior.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide whether methods like ACT or CBT make sense and adjust the plan over time to match progress and changing needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and working through exercises. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when hands-free conversation is easier. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, more frequent touchpoints for coaching and support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English