About Dale
Dale Barrett is a Licensed Professional Counselor with three decades of clinical experience. She works with people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. Her style is straightforward and practical, focused on small steps that add up to real change.
Dale helps people map where they are and what is getting in the way. She listens for the patterns that keep problems repeating, then helps set clear, doable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - she prefers to work as a team with each person to build a plan that fits their life. Her background includes long experience with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and major life transitions. She also addresses mood disorders, obsessive and compulsive concerns, anger, and relationship and family strains.
She brings particular attention to issues that affect later life, such as aging and geriatric concerns. Dale uses a mix of approaches to match the person in front of her. That can include acceptance-based skills, cognitive methods to shift thinking, emotion regulation tools, and client-centered listening that keeps the person’s priorities central.
She adapts techniques to the situation and the person’s goals. She holds LPC and LCPC credentials and practices in Wisconsin. Sessions are offered in English, and she sees international clients as well.
Her aim is to help people make steady progress toward the life they want.
Therapeutic methods and how they fit online
Dale often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people manage thoughts and take action toward meaningful goals. ACT focuses on clarifying values and using mindfulness and acceptance to reduce the struggle with difficult feelings, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. CBT looks at thought patterns and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to reduce distress and improve daily functioning, useful for mood disorders, obsessions, and coping skills.Finding the right method is part of the work together. She approaches therapy as a collaboration and will help figure out which approaches match a person's needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as progress is made or new challenges emerge.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and a fuller conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit brief check-ins or work around busy schedules. These options help people keep therapy consistent while fitting sessions into daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas, Maine, Utah
- Languages
- English