About Barbie
Barbie Rice is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with nine years of clinical experience. She centers sessions on the person in front of her, helping people notice strengths and make steady, realistic changes. Her work focuses on stress, anxiety, mood disorders, relationship concerns, and self-esteem issues.
She uses straightforward conversation and practical tools. Sessions often look at patterns that keep a problem going and then try small experiments to change them.
Background and approach
Barbie draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to shift unhelpful thoughts and on DBT skills to manage strong emotions and impulses. For people who bring traumatic memories, she may integrate EMDR techniques alongside talk-based work to reduce the hold of painful images. Existential themes also appear in sessions when clients are weighing life purpose, meaning, or big transitions.
The approach stays grounded in what the client wants to change now. Barbie helps people navigate specific issues such as panic attacks, bipolar mood swings, abandonment and attachment wounds, body image struggles, and difficulties with communication. She also supports those facing divorce or midlife questions and those coping with guilt, shame, or control problems.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Clients can expect clear feedback, practical skills to try between sessions, and a focus on building confidence to handle future challenges.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy puts the client's perspective first and focuses on listening, reflection, and helping people clarify their goals; online sessions can use this approach to help people talk through what matters and choose next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses exercises and homework to change patterns that cause distress; it adapts well to video or text because worksheets and thought logs can be shared and reviewed. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness; these skills can be taught in short coaching-style exchanges on chat or practiced in longer video sessions.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and needs, then suggest techniques to try. Together they will adjust methods over time based on what helps most and what fits the client's schedule and learning style.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support quick skill coaching between sessions or ongoing check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English