About Barbara
Barbara Moorehead is a Louisiana psychologist with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She is LA Psychologist 1034 and focuses on practical ways to reduce worry and feel more in control. Her tone is straightforward and reassuring for someone taking a first step toward help.
She works with people facing depression, anger, and LGBT related concerns. She also supports those coping with life changes, health problems, and the stresses that come with military or first responder roles.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at making everyday challenges feel more manageable. Barbara prefers clear conversation and real-world strategies. She helps clients notice unhelpful patterns and practice different responses.
Work in sessions can include talking through recent problems, trying new coping steps, and planning for gradual changes. Her background includes long experience across many kinds of stress and mood concerns, as well as family of origin and blended family issues. She has helped people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver strain, substance use concerns, and multicultural or HIV related matters.
Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled online or by phone. Barbara accepts international clients and tailors the pace to each person. She encourages anyone who feels ready to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first appointment.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Barbara uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and building coping skills. One common approach helps people identify stressful thought patterns and try different ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Another approach emphasizes step-by-step behavior changes and small experiments to build confidence and calm in everyday situations.Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they pick approaches that match the person's needs and adjust the plan over time based on what works.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this work. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice new skills in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, sharing progress, or getting reminders between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and continue steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Anger management
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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