About Barbara
Barbara Stanley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas. She brings four years of counseling experience and listens first to understand what is happening and what is causing pain. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps forward.
Clients often come for stress, anxiety, career strain, or depression. She also works with grief, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and life changes. Barbara pays attention to what a person believes and will include spiritual or faith perspectives when asked.
Background and approach
In sessions she offers a steady, listening presence and helps people notice strengths they already have. She uses everyday language and aims to make ideas easy to use between meetings. That can mean trying small coping steps, shifting a thought pattern, or practicing calming skills.
Barbara combines evidence-informed methods with simple goal-setting. She helps people break problems into manageable pieces and track small wins. Over time that approach supports clearer choices about work, relationships, and purpose.
People who prefer a direct but compassionate style tend to fit well. Barbara describes herself as an ally who supports the client’s goals. She encourages courage for change and respects each person’s decisions about faith and values.
Therapeutic approaches for online care and anxiety management
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on how thoughts influence feelings and behavior. In short online sessions clients learn to identify unhelpful thinking, test it, and try new ways of responding to reduce anxiety and improve mood.EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, helps people who carry distress from past events. It uses focused attention and processing techniques to reduce the intensity of painful memories and the reactions they trigger.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients take an active role in choosing methods that fit their comfort and needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not practical, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or other commitments and let people keep progress consistent even when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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