About Barbara
Barbara Schuver is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Missouri with over 21 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety while also addressing depression, grief, and relationship concerns. Barbara aims to make therapy direct and understandable for busy people and stressed parents.
Her sessions are practical and collaborative. She listens first, then helps clients name what matters and set small goals. She uses tools to calm intense feelings, improve sleep, and handle anger in healthier ways.
Background and approach
Barbara draws on several approaches to fit each person's needs. She blends cognitive behavioral techniques with client-centered listening and acceptance-based strategies. That mix helps people change unhelpful thinking, accept difficult emotions, and move toward values that matter to them.
She also works with issues tied to family and life stage changes. This includes parenting strain, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, and challenges around aging. She helps people navigate communication problems, boundaries, and the emotional fallout of separation or divorce.
Practical matters like career stress, self-esteem, intimacy issues, and sleep problems come up often in her work. Barbara offers phone and video calls, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. To begin, someone completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to availability.
Approaches for anxiety and change in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, value-driven steps even when hard feelings are present. It helps people reduce the power of anxiety by changing how they relate to unwanted thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It teaches practical strategies to test unhelpful thoughts, build coping skills, and change routines that worsen anxiety or depression.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Barbara will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, pace, and personal preferences. Together they pick tools and homework that feel doable and relevant to the problems at hand.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people have full conversations and visual contact, phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for quick check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent when schedules are tight or travel is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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