About Barbara
Barbara Edelman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. She draws on ten years of experience to offer steady support during life changes and emotional challenges. Her style is calm and direct, focused on practical steps the client can use between sessions.
Barbara uses a client-centered approach that puts the person's needs first. She encourages people to speak openly about what matters most to them and listens for patterns that get in the way of feeling better.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions when helpful to reduce reactivity and build awareness. Clients learn short exercises they can use during stressful moments to slow down and make clearer choices.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to the client’s comfort. Her background includes work around family and relationship issues, parenting stress, identity and LGBT concerns, trauma and abuse, and chronic mood conditions such as bipolar disorder. She also supports people facing career transitions, aging concerns, and neurodiversity-related challenges such as autism and ADHD.
Barbara offers practical tools and clear explanations so people can try new approaches between sessions. She helps clients set realistic goals and track small changes that add up over time.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person in front of the therapist. It helps people feel heard and clarifies what they want to change in their lives. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills for reducing anxiety and depressive patterns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches brief attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and build clearer decision making during stressful moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and daily routines and then suggest which methods to try first. Over time they adjust the plan based on what helps most, so clients stay involved in deciding their path forward.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and feel more connected, while phone sessions can fit into a short break or reduce bandwidth needs. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or when written reflection feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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