About LaChelle
LaChelle Barnett is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works directly and with a no-nonsense style that still leaves room for humor. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel less overwhelmed and more able to move forward.
Barnett’s background includes a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Dayton and a master’s degree in social work from Indiana University.
Background and approach
She is also near completion of a doctorate degree. This mix of academic training and long clinical experience shapes her down-to-earth approach. In sessions she often combines different evidence-based tools to match each person’s needs.
She helps people set clear goals, build accountability, and break big problems into manageable tasks. She also works with people who have struggled with addiction, trauma, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, anger, low self-esteem, and career transitions. Her style is direct and action-oriented, aiming to move people toward tangible change while also validating the hard feelings that come with change.
She sees therapy as a collaborative process and expects clients to be active participants in their work. Barnett offers video, phone, chat, and text-based sessions and schedules sessions on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. She practices from Indiana and conducts sessions in English.
People who want to start can complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many clinicians use cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. This approach helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical skills to change thoughts and habits.Acceptance and commitment ideas focus on clarifying values and taking committed action even when feelings are difficult. That approach is useful for people who want to move toward meaningful goals despite worry or uncertainty.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively with each person to pick approaches that match their needs, goals, and preferences and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text messaging let people send updates or get brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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