About Barbara
Barbara Dunn helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, low, or overwhelmed by life changes. She supports those dealing with parenting struggles, relationship strain, grief, anger, career pressure, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Barbara offers calm, practical guidance for people trying to regain steady footing.
Barbara Dunn is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC with 24 years of experience. She sees adults and teens and draws on long clinical experience to keep sessions straightforward and useful.
How Barbara works
Her manner is easygoing and she often uses a little humor to lighten hard conversations. In sessions she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy alongside mindfulness practices. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try different ways of coping, and set small, achievable goals.
Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings and on steps that move things forward quickly. She has particular experience with parenting concerns and adolescent issues, and she helps parents manage stress and caregiver strain without taking over family decisions. She also supports people navigating divorce or separation, rebuilding self-love, and handling panic attacks or seasonal mood changes.
Barbara practices in Michigan and conducts therapy in English. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. To begin, a person uses the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
Barbara lists 3 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches and online options for practical change
Barbara uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on clear, testable steps that reduce anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms by changing thinking patterns and trying new behaviors.She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices. Mindfulness helps people notice their experience without getting swept away by it, which can ease stress and improve emotional balance.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and together decide which techniques fit best. That collaborative process can blend CBT, mindfulness, and solution-focused steps to match what someone wants to change.
Online therapy is offered through several formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or mobility are concerns, and live chat or text-based messaging for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into a busy life, allow for flexible scheduling, and let people choose how they want to connect with a licensed professional.
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