About Barbara
Barbara Mey is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 20 years of clinical experience. She offers straightforward, practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or life changes. Her work is focused on helping clients build coping skills and move toward the goals that matter to them.
She adapts her approach to each person and explains options in plain language. Sessions often include cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness exercises to manage symptoms.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients clarify values and take small, meaningful steps. Barbara has worked in substance abuse clinics and community mental health settings. That experience includes group and individual work with people facing mood disorders, trauma, addiction, and adjustment challenges.
She has supported people dealing with grief, codependency, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and relationship problems. In sessions she aims to be present, compassionate, and direct. People can expect practical tools paired with time to reflect on patterns and choices.
Her goal is to help clients leave sessions with something they can try between meetings. Barbara practices in Rhode Island and conducts work in English. She offers a calm, steady style for those seeking clear strategies for anxiety, depression, parenting strain, or changing life circumstances.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and move toward what matters. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and decisions about life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus in daily life.Picking an approach is a team effort. Barbara will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they choose methods to try and adjust them as progress is made, so the plan fits the client’s pace and needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when video isn’t possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, tracking homework, or fitting a short session into a busy day. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care while juggling work, family, or health demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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