About Barbara
Dr. Barbara Brady is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience in West Virginia. She brings long experience to conversations about relationships, stress, grief, and life transitions.
Her tone is supportive and nonjudgmental, and she focuses on practical steps people can take to change what isn’t working. Barbara helps people set clearer goals and take concrete action toward them. She listens for patterns that get in the way and offers tools to shift those patterns.
How Barbara works
Sessions aim to move from problem-focused talk to solution-focused plans. Her work covers relationship and family concerns, parenting and custody questions, addictions, eating struggles, and issues around identity and LGBT concerns. She also addresses anger, anxiety, depression, career stress, and trauma and abuse.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and fertility concerns. Barbara uses several evidence-based approaches to tailor care to each person. She draws on client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy offer skills for managing thoughts and strong emotions. Emotionally-Focused and Gottman approaches guide work on connection and communication in close relationships. Her style is collaborative: she helps people recognize barriers and then plans steps they can try between sessions.
She values learning and keeps current through ongoing training. If someone wants practical support for rebuilding relationships or managing life stress, she offers steady guidance and clear strategies.
Barbara lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Barbara works with
The areas below are the ones Barbara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | West Virginia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online work and connection
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. The therapist creates a space to hear goals and values, and together they shape work that fits those priorities. This approach helps people who need a steady, person-focused start when facing life changes or relationship challenges.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It offers concrete exercises to test and change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and some eating or addiction concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving coping in high-stress moments.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will help explore each person's goals, preferences, and the problems they want to address, then recommend useful tools and strategies. That plan can change as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people work face-to-face from any location, phone works well when internet bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can be helpful for brief check-ins or steady ongoing support. These options make scheduling easier and let therapy fit into busy days.
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