About Barbara
Dr. Dr. Barbara Humbles is a licensed counselor and marriage and family therapist in Louisiana with 35 years of experience.
She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or relationship struggles. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at making it easier to talk about difficult emotions and situations. She creates a calm space where people can say what they are thinking and feeling without judgment.
Sessions focus on practical steps that can reduce worry, improve sleep, and ease anger or low mood.
Background and approach
Barbara also supports those dealing with intimacy questions, addiction concerns, or the strain that caregiving can bring. Her background spans many clinical settings over three and a half decades, giving her familiarity with a wide range of life challenges.
That experience informs how she helps people sort through family of origin issues, blended family dynamics, and the stress of major life transitions like divorce or retirement. Barbara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to build skills for coping and communication. She works collaboratively to set goals that match each person’s needs and pace.
Her style is practical and compassionate, helping clients try changes that fit into daily life. People often come for help with career stress, compassion fatigue, or trauma and abuse recovery. She also addresses concerns such as forgiveness, commitment worries, and problems tied to substance use.
The focus is on steady progress and clearer choices. Starting therapy begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session. From there she partners with each person to find realistic steps toward feeling better.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Barbara uses well-established, evidence-based techniques that focus on skills people can use right away. One approach emphasizes developing coping skills for stress and anxiety - teaching breathing and thought strategies to reduce worry and improve sleep. Another approach centers on relationship and communication work - helping people name needs, set boundaries, and practice clearer ways of speaking and listening.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals, concerns, and daily life. That can mean trying a few techniques and adjusting based on what helps most as therapy continues.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video works well for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people send short updates or handle brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel and support steady progress without extra travel time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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