About Barbara
Barbara Leigh is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 38 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and mood conditions. She supports work on sleep, self-esteem, addiction, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Barbara also helps people facing parenting challenges, caregiving strain, career transitions, and neurodiversity-related issues like ADHD and autism.
Barbara keeps things practical and straightforward. She listens first, then tailors an approach to each person’s needs and goals.
How Barbara works
Sessions focus on clear skills, small steps, and real-life problem solving that people can use between appointments. Her work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s goals, and cognitive behavioral techniques that link thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies are used to build momentum and set achievable short-term goals.
Trauma-focused tools are applied when past harm still affects daily life. Barbara has worked across many settings over her career, including inpatient and outpatient care, day treatment, residential programs, in-home services, independent practice, and online work. That range informs a flexible style that adapts to different life situations and needs.
People who choose this approach often want lasting change and are prepared for longer-term work. Barbara aims to help people get ready to change, then support them through the steps needed to meet their goals. The focus is on practical growth, steadier coping, and regaining a sense of control.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions according to therapist availability.
Barbara lists 5 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 38 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alabama |
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Online support options
How these approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the person's lead so goals come from what matters most to them. Online sessions allow the therapist to reflect back concerns and priorities while clients set the pace and topics. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with clear exercises and homework. It suits anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and mood regulation work that benefits from between-session practice.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then recommend a combination of methods that fits. That collaborative process can be adjusted over time if a different emphasis or technique seems more helpful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or messaging can support quick check-ins, skill practice, or writing out thoughts between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varied life situations.
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