About Barbara
Barbara Walsh is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related struggles. She writes and talks plainly, so parents can quickly see how therapy might fit into everyday life. Barbara focuses on practical steps that reduce overwhelming feelings and improve daily functioning.
Her work aims to build stronger communication and healthier self-esteem. She helps people facing life changes, workplace strain, and the fallout from past emotional wounds.
Background and approach
Sessions address sleep and eating concerns, anger and impulsivity, and feelings of isolation or guilt. Barbara blends several evidence-informed approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation skills.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients clarify values and take workable steps toward them. Clients can expect a calm, respectful space where their experience is listened to first. Barbara often focuses on skill-building, brief behavioral experiments, and steady problem-solving.
She also pays attention to life purpose, money stress, and caregiver strain when those issues come up. She practices in Connecticut and works with people online as well. Her background supports people dealing with mood disorders, panic, post-traumatic stress, chronic illness and chronic pain, and compassion fatigue.
The goal is better day-to-day coping and clearer next steps forward.
Therapeutic approaches and remote care
Barbara commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new actions that lead to different results. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, depression, panic, and many ADHD-related challenges.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which emphasizes clarifying personal values and taking small, meaningful steps even when uncomfortable feelings remain. ACT can help with motivation, avoidance, and finding a clearer sense of purpose.
Choosing the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your situation, adjusting the plan as you progress. That collaborative process helps match techniques to what actually helps you in daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so therapy can fit into busy schedules. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, brief messaging suits quick check-ins, and live chat can serve as a shorter focused session. These options make it possible to keep momentum and practice skills between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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