About Barbara
Barbara Parry is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She works with clients on relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem, ADHD, career strain, and compassion fatigue. Barbara focuses on practical steps to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning.
She keeps sessions centered on the person's experience and goals. Conversations are straightforward and geared toward what the person wants to change.
How Barbara works
Strategies may include cognitive exercises, emotion-focused work, mindfulness, or guided hypnotherapy when appropriate. Barbara draws on about 10 years of clinical work to guide her choices. She aims to make therapy feel like a collaborative problem-solving process rather than a lecture.
People can expect both exploring feelings and practicing new ways to cope. She often helps clients facing life transitions, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and the aftermath of abuse or loss. Communication problems, panic attacks, social anxiety, and lingering shame or guilt are also common topics in her sessions.
Barbara emphasizes building self-compassion and clarifying life purpose. Her approach combines empathy with concrete tools so clients leave with specific skills to try between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients.
Barbara lists 11 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
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters most to the client. It helps people feel understood and find their own solutions by building a respectful and nonjudgmental relationship.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) uses short exercises and behavioral experiments to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. CBT can help with anxiety, panic attacks, social fears, and patterns that maintain low mood.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people understand strong emotions and how those emotions shape relationships and self-worth. It is useful when grief, abandonment feelings, or deep shame are getting in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Then she will recommend methods and adjust them as progress is made in sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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