About Barbara
Barbara Parker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with nine years of clinical experience. She draws on her time working in inpatient settings and community corrections to help people move past addiction, trauma, and repeating patterns that cause distress. Her style is straightforward and respectful.
She centers the person seeking help rather than prescribing answers. Barbara uses a person-centered stance that keeps the client in charge of their goals.
How Barbara works
She treats therapy as a collaborative process where the counselor guides the steps toward change, not hands down solutions. That means sessions focus on understanding what matters most to the client and building practical next steps. Her work often involves examining thoughts and behaviors to produce meaningful shifts.
She blends client-centered care with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to address anxiety, depression, and stress. Motivational interviewing is used when people are finding it hard to commit to change. Barbara also brings experience helping with relationship concerns, intimacy issues, parenting stress, grief, and career-related strain.
She has supported people coping with major life transitions, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and sleep problems. Her background includes work with people leaving prison who were rebuilding their lives, which informs her direct yet empathetic approach. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs and paced according to individual readiness.
Barbara focuses on clear, actionable steps so clients can try changes between sessions and report back what worked. The aim is steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes.
Barbara lists 8 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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
How Barbara’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Barbara uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters most to them and take values-based steps even when emotions are hard. ACT focuses on building meaningful action rather than getting stuck trying to eliminate uncomfortable feelings. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that maintain anxiety, depression, or sleep problems. CBT offers clear, practical tools to test new ways of thinking and behaving.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Barbara treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help clients choose which methods fit their goals and comfort level. That choice can be adjusted over time as needs change and progress is observed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth or hands-free time is needed. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, homework feedback, or short coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other daily demands.
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