About Dale
Dale Barrett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with three decades of clinical experience. She works with people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or major life changes. Her approach is practical and steady, focused on helping clients find clearer direction and manageable steps forward.
Clients meet a clinician who emphasizes teamwork. Dale listens to what feels out of control, helps name the causes, and then identifies realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on small, doable changes that add up over time. Her background includes long experience with mood disorders, trauma and abuse, addictions, and grief. She also supports people facing career shifts, divorce and separation, and issues tied to aging or caregiving.
Broadly, she helps with relationship strain, anger, and trouble managing strong emotions. Dale uses several evidence-informed methods, such as cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based perspectives, and dialectical behavior tools. She adapts techniques to fit each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
She holds credentials as LPC and LCPC and practices in Wisconsin. Her style is practical and conversational, aimed at helping people move toward clear, attainable goals while addressing painful past events and current stressors.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to values-based action. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes because it focuses on small steps toward a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the links between thoughts, feelings and behavior and gives practical tools for reducing worry and depressive patterns. It often includes short exercises and between-session practice. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people build healthier ways of relating when trust or closeness is difficult.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each client about goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit those aims. That decision is collaborative and may shift as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support quick check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options give flexibility for people balancing work, family, and other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas, Maine, Utah
- Languages
- English
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