About Barbara
Barbara Farrell is a Licensed Professional Counselor in New Jersey with ten years of experience. She focuses on everyday struggles like parenting stress, low self-esteem, anxiety, and depression. She believes people already hold strengths they can use to make meaningful changes.
Barbara aims to offer steady support as people take the first steps toward feeling better. Barbara starts by listening to each person's story and noticing what is working. She helps people break problems into smaller, manageable steps.
How Barbara works
Conversations cover practical skills for mood, sleep, and stress, and guidance for relationship and career concerns. The tone is direct and compassionate, with attention to concrete goals. Her work addresses a wide range of concerns including ADHD, addictions, grief, trauma, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue.
She also focuses on attachment and abandonment issues, communication problems, codependency, and blended family stress. This range lets her tailor sessions to the specific problems a person brings. Sessions often include problem-solving around life changes, tools to manage overwhelming feelings, and strategies to rebuild confidence.
She supports people dealing with intimacy-related issues, anger, and career transitions as well. Practical strategies for sleeping and coping with change are common parts of the work. Barbara accepts international clients and provides services in English.
She works with a goal-oriented approach and helps people track progress as they try new ways of coping.
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.
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Barbara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach emphasizes behavioral strategies and skills practice to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and manage mood swings. This involves setting small daily goals and trying concrete tools that target symptoms directly.Another approach centers on building awareness of relationship patterns and attachment needs. That work helps people recognize unhelpful habits, improve communication, and rebuild trust in themselves and others. It can be useful for intimacy concerns, abandonment issues, and codependency.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust techniques based on what helps. Together they decide which strategies to keep and which to change as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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