About Barbara
Barbara Mey is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 20 years of clinical work. She brings steady, practical support to people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, ADHD, and life transitions. Her approach is calm and down-to-earth, and she focuses on helping people gain skills they can use day to day.
She adapts her counseling style to each person. Sessions often include clear tools for coping, conversations about what matters most, and gentle mindfulness exercises.
Background and approach
She emphasizes developing self-awareness and building habits that move someone toward their goals. Barbara has a Master’s degree from Providence College and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study from Salve Regina University. Much of her background is in community mental health and substance use treatment, including group and individual work in a clinic setting.
That experience shaped her work with mood and anxiety concerns, trauma recovery, and addiction-related issues. In practice she uses strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work. Those methods become concrete steps people can try between sessions.
She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to understand long-standing patterns when that fits. People who meet with her can expect a steady, compassionate presence and practical problem-solving. She aims to make sessions understandable and useful, helping clients find small changes that add up over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Barbara often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT breaks problems into clear parts and offers concrete steps people can practice between sessions.She also uses mindfulness therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus. Mindfulness can be helpful for anxiety, stress, sleep, and attention difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. Clients and the therapist make adjustments as needed so the plan feels useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexible access. Video works well for in-depth conversation and visual cues, while phone calls can suit shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins, brief coaching, and ongoing support between scheduled visits. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, caregiving, and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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