About Barnetta
Barnetta Young is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She provides calm, practical support for people struggling with grief, trauma, addiction, and self-esteem. Barnetta focuses on everyday problems and small steps that make a difference.
She prefers a warm, person-centered style that puts each person's priorities first. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused; she listens, asks clear questions, and helps you try tools between meetings.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Barnetta also uses solution-focused strategies to break big problems into manageable goals. That approach helps when someone needs quick, practical changes for sleep, eating, or coping with life transitions.
The work often covers communication problems, attachment and abandonment concerns, and issues around caregiving stress. Her practice attends to multicultural concerns and LGBT-related issues with sensitivity. She helps people facing domestic violence, divorce and separation, drug or alcohol addiction, and family problems to plan safer, healthier next steps.
Isolation and midlife crisis are also common topics she supports. Clients can expect straightforward suggestions, written exercises, and check-ins on progress. Barnetta works from Georgia and offers sessions in English.
She aims to make therapy understandable and useful for everyday life challenges.
How Barnetta’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s needs and priorities. In short, the therapist listens without judgment and helps people name what matters most, which can be useful for anxiety, relationship worries, and identity concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, sleep problems, and mood concerns. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan together. That shared decision-making helps tailor work to each person’s needs and preferences. Online sessions offer practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and useful when a quick check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief updates and follow-ups easy between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a routine, try techniques in real time, and keep momentum between sessions. A licensed therapist will help choose which format and approach match the client’s goals and circumstances.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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