About Barbara
Barbara Vernon is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 15 years of experience. She works with young adults and adults who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, mood shifts, or the effects of past trauma. Her style is direct and respectful, and she aims to help people feel steadier in daily life.
Barbara draws on practical methods to reduce panic, manage mood symptoms, and rebuild confidence. She listens for what matters most to each person and focuses on small, doable steps that fit real life.
Background and approach
Conversations often center on recognizing patterns, testing new behaviors, and practicing skills between sessions. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify values and take purposeful action, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thinking patterns that fuel anxiety and depression. Mindfulness practices are woven in to build calm and present-moment awareness.
Barbara also brings a client-centered perspective that privileges the person's own goals and strengths. That means she prioritizes the person’s experience and pace when planning therapy work. She has substantial experience supporting survivors of childhood abuse and people managing mood disorders.
Her practice is practical and collaborative. Sessions focus on solving today's problems while also building tools for the future. If change feels daunting, she works to make the next step feel possible and manageable.
Approach driven online therapy that fits your life
Barbara commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small steps toward those values, which can help when anxiety or mood swings get in the way. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and tests simpler, more adaptive ways of responding to stress and panic.She also integrates client-centered and mindfulness practices to keep the work grounded in each person's experience. Figuring out the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to the client's goals, preferences, and the specific problems being addressed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for full-session conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging may suit shorter check-ins, brief coaching, or day-to-day skill reminders. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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