About Barbara
Barbara Spruill is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Texas. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Her approach is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people regain stability and move toward clearer goals.
She uses straightforward conversation and practical tools in sessions. Barbara draws from client-centered work to follow each person’s pace. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness strategies to manage strong emotions and improve sleep.
Background and approach
With nine years of experience, Barbara has helped people navigate life changes, coping after trauma and abuse, and challenges tied to caregiving and aging. She also works with issues such as codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, substance use, anger, and self-harm concerns. Her style is flexible and collaborative.
Sessions focus on what the person needs right now, whether that means short-term coaching, problem-solving, or deeper therapeutic work. She emphasizes respect, patience, and steady progress rather than quick fixes. Barbara values clear goals and practical steps.
People can expect a mix of talk, skill-building exercises, and strategies to practice between sessions. Her office is in Texas and she provides services in English.
How therapy approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's priorities. The therapist offers empathy and acceptance and helps people clarify goals and next steps, which can help with stress, life changes, and self-esteem issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions often include simple exercises and homework to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose methods to try and adjust them based on progress and comfort.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit busy lives. Video calls let people see facial cues and do longer sessions. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep consistency while trying different strategies.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English