About Barbara
Barbara Chopyk uses straightforward, practical approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and depression. She is a licensed clinical social worker with eight years of experience and offers a calm, nonjudgmental way to talk through difficult feelings. She focuses on building an open space where clients can name what feels hard and try small changes that make daily life easier.
Sessions emphasize real skills for coping with anxiety, boosting self-esteem, and addressing career and motivation concerns.
How Barbara works
EMDR may be used for trauma-related distress when appropriate. Barbara draws on evidence-based methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful patterns. Narrative therapy helps clients rewrite painful stories about themselves and their past.
She also integrates relationship skills from the Gottman Method when communication and connection are part of the concern. Her background includes work in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey as a PA LCSW and NJ LCSW. That experience shaped a practical style that aims for steady progress rather than quick fixes.
The focus is on concrete steps clients can try between sessions. Barbara invites people to take the first step even when it feels risky. She helps clients set achievable goals and adjusts the plan as needs change.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to match each person's comfort level.
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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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Online approaches that fit your needs
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and clarifies personal values to guide meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and practicing different behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. EMDR is a trauma-focused method that can help lessen the intensity of painful memories and related distress when trauma is a central concern.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up in daily life. Together they’ll try approaches that match the problem and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work visually through exercises and face-to-face check-ins. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter, simpler option is preferred. Live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins, progress notes, or extra coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
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