About Barbara
Barbara Stanley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with four years of counseling experience. She listens first to understand what is happening and what hurts. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, career problems, depression, grief, or major life changes.
Her style is calm and straightforward. She invites clients to tell their story and works alongside them rather than lecturing. If faith or spiritual beliefs matter to someone, she can include those elements when the client prefers them.
Background and approach
Barbara uses practical methods to help people spot patterns that keep them stuck. She offers ideas to try between sessions and reminds people of strengths they already have. Sessions are focused on clear steps and real-world change rather than only talking about feelings.
She has experience addressing trauma and abuse, post-traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and grief related to end-of-life care. Other common topics she helps with include relationship and communication problems, caregiving stress, codependency, money concerns, and issues that often come in midlife. Barbara draws from several approaches to match each person’s needs, including cognitive behavior techniques, mindfulness, and trauma-focused tools.
The goal is to find workable strategies that fit daily life. She aims to be an ally who supports people as they make changes and try new ways of coping.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Barbara often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR in her online practice. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression. EMDR is used to work through traumatic memories by pairing focused attention with guided processing to lessen the emotional charge of those memories.Choosing the right approach is part of the collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, history, and what feels most comfortable. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust as needed based on progress and preference.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper exchange. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when being on camera is difficult. Live chat or messaging supports shorter check-ins, reflection between sessions, or continued contact without scheduling a full video visit. These options aim to make regular contact easier to maintain while working toward goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English