About Barbara
Barbara Bosoni is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 30 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and major life changes. Her style is direct and relational, focused on listening and building a workable path forward.
Barbara draws on long experience working with adults around trauma, family problems, and mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder. She also supports people facing issues related to sexual assault, domestic violence, abandonment, and divorce or separation.
Background and approach
Her work with LGBT clients and those coping with intimacy or parenting challenges is grounded in respect and practical care. In sessions she uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s lead and establish trust. She also integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful patterns and emotionally-focused ideas to strengthen important relationships.
These approaches are applied in everyday language and concrete steps you can try between meetings. Barbara believes change is possible but understands it takes effort, persistence, and hope. She emphasizes collaboration - setting goals together and adjusting the plan as needed.
Her aim is to help people move from where they are now to a place they want to be. Clients who choose Barbara can expect straightforward guidance shaped by decades of practice and by lessons learned from many people she has worked with. She values connection, practical tools, and steady support through difficult moments.
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Work
Barbara practices client-centered therapy, which means sessions focus on the person speaking and on building trust through active listening. This approach helps people feel heard and clarifies what they most want to change or understand in their life.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, a practical method that identifies unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replaces them with testing and adaptable strategies. CBT is often used for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns where changing thinking and routines can reduce distress.
Emotionally-focused therapy appears in her work when relationship patterns are central. EFT helps people name feelings, trace how interactions escalate, and try new ways of relating that improve closeness and understanding.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan over time. Clients help shape sessions so the work stays relevant and realistic for their daily lives.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - offer practical benefits. Video lets people use body language and shared exercises, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging works for ongoing reflection between sessions. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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