About Barbara
Barbara Haslip is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with 22 years of experience. She offers straightforward, respectful support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, and related concerns. Her tone is warm and direct, aiming to make goals clear and doable.
She uses an open, empathetic style in sessions. Conversations focus on practical steps that reduce distress and improve daily functioning. She pays attention to what matters most to each person and adjusts the pace to their needs.
Background and approach
Barbara draws from client-centered work to build trust and from cognitive behavioral methods to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotional regulation skills and motivational interviewing to help people find personal reasons to change. Her experience includes supporting people with bipolar disorder, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, LGBT issues, and compassion fatigue.
She also helps with parenting stress, career pressures, intimacy challenges, and managing ADHD-related struggles. Barbara mentions work with seniors, adults, and teens in clinical settings. Sessions focus on clear goals, skill-building, and small, measurable steps.
People who want practical tools and a respectful listener may find this approach helpful. Barbara aims to make therapy understandable and applicable to everyday life.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered work focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps build a trusting space where goals are set together and therapy follows the client’s pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect and teaches techniques to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression and stress-related problems.Barbara will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that fit their needs and goals. She discusses options, tries methods in session, and adjusts the plan based on what works. Finding the right mix of skills and support is part of the process rather than a one-time choice.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people share thoughts between sessions or use brief check-ins during a busy day. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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