About Barbara
Barbara Farrell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety along with parenting concerns, low self-esteem, depression, stress, and life changes. Barbara approaches each person as the expert on their own story and helps them build on strengths they already have.
She offers a calm, straightforward style in sessions. People can expect practical conversation about what is happening now, steps to try between sessions, and help naming patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
Barbara emphasizes small, manageable goals so progress feels real and steady. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, grief and loss, addiction, trauma and abuse, and sleep problems. She also supports those facing career stress, caregiver strain, or questions around identity and LGBT matters.
Barbara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide the work and adjusts methods to fit each person. Clients often come with anger, control issues, or challenges tied to attachment and abandonment. She also addresses conditions such as ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder when relevant.
Sessions are practical and focused on what helps in daily life. Barbara accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. She aims to create a steady, encouraging space where people can try new ways of coping and make changes that last.
Approaches that fit online care
Barbara uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people manage anxiety, mood concerns, and life transitions. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them in daily life to reduce worry and low mood. This helps people develop clearer thinking and calmer reactions when stress rises.Another frequent method centers on building routines and small behavioral changes to improve sleep, energy, and coping. These steps can include short experiments between sessions and gradual habit shifts that add up over time. Both methods translate well to remote work because they emphasize real-world practice and measurable steps.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then adjust techniques as needed. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods to try and how to pace the work.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can serve for brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice new skills in everyday moments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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