About Barbara
Dr. Barbara Wasowska meets people where they are and focuses on practical help for everyday struggles. She guides conversations about relationships, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, grief, and stress.
Dr. Wasowska holds an MD and is licensed as an LCPC in Maryland. She has 14 years of experience and aims to make starting therapy straightforward and manageable.
Her approach begins with listening so each person feels understood.
Background and approach
She adapts sessions to the issue at hand and to the person in the room. That can mean learning skills to manage panic, practicing clearer communication around intimacy, or building routines that reduce overwhelm.
She combines several practical methods, including cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, acceptance and commitment strategies to clarify values and take action, and attachment-informed work to understand relationship patterns. Sessions often include skill-building, reflection, and step-by-step plans people can try between meetings. Dr.
Wasowska also addresses life-stage concerns such as midlife changes, aging and geriatric issues, and challenges tied to immigration or multicultural stress. She works with problems that come after illness, including cancer-related distress, and with compassion fatigue experienced by caregivers or professionals. People who choose her practice can expect straightforward language, calm pacing, and a focus on small, achievable changes.
She asks questions, offers tools, and refines the plan as goals shift.
How her approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation by shifting focus from struggling with symptoms to building a meaningful life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches concrete techniques to reduce panic attacks, depressive downward spirals, and unhelpful thinking patterns through practice and homework.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape trust, intimacy, and emotional responses. This work can improve communication and reduce repeated conflicts in adult relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the process, and the therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She will check in and adjust strategies over time so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for fuller conversation and nonverbal cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text options make brief check-ins or step-by-step skill coaching easier to fit into a busy day. These formats increase flexibility, letting people build a therapy routine that suits their schedule.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English