About Jacques-Paul
Jacques-Paul Barbour is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Massachusetts. He helps people facing anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, grief, trauma, and life changes. Jacques-Paul draws on more than 23 years of clinical experience to support day-to-day coping and longer term change.
He trained at Cambridge College, earning a Master of Education in Mental Health Counseling and Marriage & Family Therapy in 2002. Since then he has worked in independent practice and crisis settings, including hospital emergency departments.
Background and approach
He has also taught undergraduate courses in psychology and human services at community colleges and four-year schools. His approach is collaborative and straightforward. He spends time understanding what matters most to each person and then focuses on practical steps that help right away.
He also makes room to look at deeper emotional patterns when that feels useful. Jacques-Paul uses a mix of methods such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, narrative ideas, and psychodynamic perspectives. He aims to create an affirming, nonjudgmental space for sensitive topics like sexuality, identity, and compulsive behaviors.
Sessions are offered in English and Arabic, and he is experienced supporting people coping with cancer, immigration stress, caregiver strain, and aging concerns. His style is warm, curious, and goal-oriented, with emphasis on helping people feel more grounded and clear about next steps.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard and clarifies goals for change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. Motivational interviewing helps people explore their own reasons for change and build motivation when facing hard decisions like addiction or major life shifts.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaboration may mean starting with practical CBT tools and adding deeper narrative or psychodynamic ideas later if helpful.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when visual cues matter, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when movement or multitasking is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Arabic
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