About Pamela
Pamela Barrigar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of practice. She is based in Illinois and helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life changes. Pamela speaks plain language and aims to make the first step easier for worried parents and busy adults.
Pamela uses straightforward, evidence-informed approaches in sessions. She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thinking and change behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centered techniques to listen closely and shape therapy around each person's goals. Mindfulness and acceptance strategies are part of her work too. These help people manage intense feelings like panic, anger, or grief without getting stuck.
Dialectical behavior ideas are used when someone needs skills for emotion regulation and better coping during crisis or stress. Pamela often supports people dealing with trauma, addiction concerns, relationship struggles, self-esteem issues, and ADHD-related challenges. She also addresses issues that come with aging, caregiving strain, and midlife transitions.
Her approach is nonjudgmental and respectful of different faith backgrounds. Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings. Pamela encourages small, doable changes and checks in on progress.
She invites clients to set clear goals and to adjust the plan as needs evolve.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then choose actions that match personal values. This approach can help when anxiety, depression, or life transitions get in the way of daily living.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is practical and structured, which works well through video or phone sessions when you want concrete tools to manage panic, worry, or mood shifts.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building a collaborative relationship. That foundation helps people feel heard and guides which techniques to try next.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Pamela will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress or obstacles emerge.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and varied needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or low-bandwidth situation, and live chat or text messaging work for brief updates or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep steady contact and practice skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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