About Barbara
Barbara Leigh is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with decades of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, grief, addiction, and relationship and intimacy concerns. Her approach is practical and person-focused, aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Barbara takes time to learn each person's history and immediate struggles. She prefers to tailor strategies to real life needs, using straightforward techniques that people can practice between sessions.
Background and approach
She works with adults on long-term growth and short-term problem solving alike. Her background includes many clinical settings over a long career, including inpatient, outpatient, day treatment, residential, in-home, independent practice, and virtual care. That variety shaped her ability to adapt methods to different situations and life stages.
In sessions she blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral tools and practical skills training. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused steps are used to set goals and keep momentum. Trauma-focused ideas guide work when past harm is part of the concern.
Barbara emphasizes learning about how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. She supports clients in building skills, testing changes, and adjusting plans as needed. Her style aims to balance challenge with warmth and a touch of humor so the work can feel doable and even meaningful.
How Barbara Uses Practical Therapies Online
Barbara draws on cognitive-behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits. CBT focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing ADHD-related patterns.She also uses client-centered therapy, which emphasizes listening and tailoring sessions to each person's priorities. That approach helps when a client needs space to be heard and to set their own goals. Motivational interviewing is used alongside these methods to boost readiness for change and strengthen commitment to small, achievable steps.
Barbara works collaboratively with each person to find the best mix of techniques. She discusses goals, tries practical exercises, and adjusts strategies based on what is working. Choosing the right approach is part of the process and happens together with the client.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging can support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Oregon, South Carolina, Georgia, Washington
- Languages
- English
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