About Barbara
Barbara Kirkman is an LPC with four decades of counseling experience. She draws on client-centered work and practical strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and trauma. Barbara speaks plainly, listens closely, and focuses on small changes that make daily life easier.
She completed a master's degree in counseling psychology and began her career in recovery services. Early roles included work in a recovery center and supervising aftercare, helping people navigate the first months after treatment.
How Barbara works
Later she provided outpatient therapy at a community mental health agency and supported people facing mood disorders, psychosis, and trauma. Barbara draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and change behaviors. She also uses mindfulness exercises to help people stay grounded and build new coping skills.
Her client-centered stance treats each person as the expert in their life while she offers guidance from her experience in recovery. Having lived through addiction and domestic abuse, she brings lived experience to work with survivors and people struggling with substance use. That background shapes how she supports those managing grief, anger, intimacy issues, and relationship challenges.
She is open-minded about lifestyle choices and respects diverse backgrounds. Sessions are scheduled with flexibility, including some evenings and weekends. Barbara encourages self-awareness and steady progress toward a life with more meaning, joy, and satisfaction.
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
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgment. In an online session that looks like open conversation, reflective listening, and working from the client’s goals to find useful next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. Online CBT includes practical exercises, thought records, and short behavioral experiments that can be done between sessions to reduce anxiety, depression, and addictive patterns.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and mood. These practices can be guided in a live session and repeated as short daily exercises outside of therapy.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose or blend methods that match needs, goals, and preferences. That process can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - offer flexibility. Video is best when visual connection helps the work. Phone calls use less bandwidth and can suit a shorter check-in. Live chat and text work well for quick updates, brief coaching, or when typing helps someone express themselves. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days or long-distance situations.
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