About Barbara
Barbara Kass, MD, LCPC, helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. She focuses on the immediate concerns that make daily life harder. Her style is practical and compassionate, aimed at helping people regain a sense of balance and direction.
She uses a collaborative approach where the client’s goals guide the work. Sessions often include talking through patterns, learning breathing and mindfulness exercises, and trying short writing practices.
Background and approach
Cognitive tools are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of responding. Kass has worked in hospitals, clinics, county services, and independent practice over an 11-year career. That range gives her experience with both medical and community settings.
She also trained at Loyola University and brings a background in pastoral counseling when spiritual or religious concerns come up. In sessions she blends client-centered conversation with cognitive methods and mindfulness. She also draws on existential and Jungian ideas to help people find meaning and recognize recurring life themes.
Practical skills and reflective work are balanced so clients leave with both insight and tools. People who want support with career transitions, codependency, dependent personality traits, or women's issues will find focused attention on life purpose and role shifts. Barbara tailors each plan to the person’s situation, using talk, breathing, and short exercises to build coping and resilience.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening carefully and following the client's concerns. Online sessions use that same attentive conversation to help people name priorities and set achievable goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches simple ways to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors; online work often includes short exercises between sessions and practical thought logs to try in daily life. Mindfulness Therapy offers breathing, meditation, and body-awareness practices that can be guided in a live session and practiced on the client’s own time.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist helps clients decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress is made, so techniques can be adjusted to what helps most.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls support in-depth conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, quick coping prompts, and ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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