About Barbara
Barbara Muller-Ackerman is a Licensed Professional Counselor in New Jersey with 28 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, sleep problems, and life transitions. Her style is warm and interactive and she focuses on practical steps that fit each person’s life.
In sessions she takes a broad view of what affects wellbeing. She looks at work, relationships, sleep, and daily routines to find places to start.
Background and approach
Many concerns overlap, so she helps clients pick manageable goals and build on small wins. She often works with people who have attention challenges that come with depression, anxiety, OCD, or executive function struggles. Barbara says these issues can affect relationships and job performance, so therapy can target specific skills and habits that make daily life easier.
She also supports people navigating life changes and aging transitions, with an emphasis on practical tools and goal-setting. Alongside counseling, she offers life, mindfulness, and wellness coaching to help clients translate insight into action. Her approach uses client-centered conversation, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, dialectical strategies, and solution-focused planning.
Sessions aim to clarify goals, build coping skills, and practice small changes that add up over time.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the client’s goals and experience. The therapist listens closely and follows the client’s lead to identify what matters most and where to begin. This approach helps people who need support naming priorities and deciding practical next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and habits affect mood and behavior. Sessions use clear strategies to test unhelpful thoughts, build routines, and change behaviors that fuel anxiety or low mood. CBT is useful for worry, sleep problems, and managing ADHD-related habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That plan can shift as progress is made and priorities change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Video lets therapists and clients use visual cues for skill practice. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging allow ongoing touchpoints and brief coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and practical for everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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