About Barbara
Barbara Farrell is a licensed professional counselor with 10 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with everyday pressures like low self-esteem, depression, stress, anxiety, and ADHD. She listens first and helps clients find practical steps that fit their life.
Barbara treats parenting concerns and the strain that comes with caregiving. She also supports people facing relationship challenges, grief, addiction, and major life changes. Sessions emphasize clear goals and small, doable changes rather than vague promises.
Background and approach
Her approach begins with understanding each person's story and strengths. She believes clients are the experts on their lives and works alongside them to build confidence and motivation. That collaboration guides the pace and focus of sessions.
Over her career she has also worked with people dealing with trauma and abuse, intimacy-related struggles, sleeping problems, anger, and mood disorders including bipolar concerns. Additional areas include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family challenges, and codependency. Barbara practices in New Jersey as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor.
She offers straightforward, goal-oriented support and practical strategies for coping and problem solving. Her style is warm, direct, and focused on helping people make measurable progress. For someone feeling overwhelmed or stuck, she provides a structured space to talk, set priorities, and try new ways of managing daily life.
Approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Barbara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear actions and measurable progress. One common approach emphasizes behavioral strategies to build routines, improve sleep, and reduce distraction; this helps when daily habits and focus are a concern. Another approach focuses on skills for managing emotions and stress, teaching practical tools for anxiety, anger, and mood swings that can be used between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and what feels doable. Together they set priorities, try strategies, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick skill coaching, or when someone prefers written communication. These options let people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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