About Barbara
Dr. Barbara Prosniewski is a California psychologist with twenty years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She brings a direct, compassionate style to sessions and aims to make clients feel heard and understood.
Her approach balances respect with practical guidance so people can move forward. Over two decades Dr. Prosniewski has worked with individuals and parents on concerns such as trauma, grief, depression, addiction, and relationship problems.
She names communication breakdown and stuck thinking as common patterns and focuses on learning new strategies to address them.
Background and approach
She also helps people facing life transitions, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and issues around body image and eating. Sessions emphasize realistic goals and skills people can use day to day. She uses methods that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, try different behaviors, and practice emotional regulation.
Humor and an honest, sometimes tough-minded tone appear when useful to shift perspective and build resilience. Dr. Prosniewski also supports concerns like ADHD, bipolar disorder, abandonment and adoption-related issues, and blended family challenges.
She highlights strengths as a starting point and works to normalize the difficult emotions that bring people to therapy. People who choose her often want straightforward feedback, practical tools, and a therapist who balances warmth with clear direction. She works in English and practices in California as CA Psychologist PSY 17496.
Practical approaches for anxiety in online therapy
Dr. Prosniewski commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to address anxiety and related problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce worry and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy focuses on emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when feelings run high.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt techniques over time. Sessions combine skill teaching, exercises to test new ways of coping, and review of progress together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided practice. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing prompts, brief check-ins, or skill reminders between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum while working on anxiety and stress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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