About Barnetta
Barnetta Young is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 25 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, trauma, and relationship and intimacy concerns. She focuses on practical help for everyday problems like sleep and eating struggles, parenting stress, low self-esteem, anger, and coping with life changes.
Her work also addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment, codependency, communication struggles, and multicultural concerns. Barnetta meets people where they are and keeps sessions straightforward and respectful.
Background and approach
She listens first and then helps clients set small, achievable goals. Sessions are built around what matters most to the individual, whether that is mood regulation, reducing anxiety, or handling a difficult life event. Her clinical approach draws on Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Solution-Focused Therapy.
Barnetta uses talk, practical skills, and short-term strategies to reduce distress and build coping tools that fit daily life. She emphasizes clear steps clients can try between sessions. With long experience in the field, Barnetta has worked with people navigating domestic violence, addiction, divorce, caregiver stress, and the fallout from natural or human-caused disasters.
Her perspective includes attention to cultural context and how identity shapes stress and resilience. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules. She communicates in English and practices out of Georgia as an LPC.
Approach and online care that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience. The therapist offers empathy and acceptance while helping the client identify their own goals and strengths. This approach is useful for people who need a steady, nonjudgmental place to talk through identity, grief, or life stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and problems that respond to clear coping strategies.
Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes rapid, practical change by identifying what is already working and building on it. Sessions often focus on small, specific goals and steps you can try between meetings to see progress quickly.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals, and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. Together you can adjust the plan as you learn what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Chat and texting allow brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English