About Antonina
Antonina Barr is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and depression. She also helps with self-esteem, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strains, and challenges tied to ADHD and compassion fatigue. Her style is straightforward and compassionate.
Sessions focus on understanding what is happening now and finding concrete steps to feel steadier. She listens for patterns such as attachment or abandonment issues and works with clients to build more helpful ways of relating to themselves and others.
How Antonina works
Antonina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide conversations and skills practice. She aims to make therapy practical: teaching coping skills, improving communication, and addressing body image, eating, or sleep problems when they come up. She also supports people facing chronic pain, illness, or life transitions like divorce or midlife change.
Over her career she has supported people dealing with anger, impulsivity, career issues, and feelings of isolation or purposelessness. She combines long experience with a calm, steady approach that helps clients take manageable steps toward goals such as rebuilding trust, improving relationships, or reducing symptoms of bipolar disorder. People can expect clear goals, collaborative planning, and a focus on real-life changes.
Antonina welcomes diverse experiences and centers respect and empathy in sessions as clients work toward greater resilience and balance.
What Antonina works with
The areas below are the ones Antonina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How Antonina’s approaches work online
Antonina draws on evidence-based techniques that help people change unhelpful patterns and build coping skills. One common approach focuses on recognizing attachment and abandonment patterns, helping people see how past relationships shape current reactions and try new ways to relate. Another approach emphasizes practical skills for anxiety, depression, and impulse control, teaching breathing, grounding, planning, and communication exercises to use between sessions.Finding the right approach is a joint effort. She works with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and daily routines. Together they set clear goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful and doable.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for in-depth therapy and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is good for quick check-ins or short coaching moments between longer sessions. These options make it easier to work around schedules and stay consistent with care.
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