About Barbara
Barbara Walsh is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and low self-esteem. She speaks English and sees clients from Connecticut and internationally. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at practical steps people can use right away.
Barbara uses short-term tools and longer-term strategies to ease symptoms like depression, panic, sleep problems, and eating concerns. She also addresses attention challenges, mood swings, and compassion fatigue.
How Barbara works
Conversations focus on clear goals and usable skills rather than jargon. Her sessions blend acceptance-based ideas with cognitive and emotion-focused techniques. This means noticing difficult feelings, testing thoughts that get in the way, and learning ways to respond that reduce reactivity.
She draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when impulsivity, intense emotion, or strong relationship patterns are present. Barbara pays attention to the practical parts of life that affect mental health. Topics she covers include money and financial stress, caregiver strain, chronic pain or illness, and problems with communication or control.
She also supports work-related struggles and the search for meaning and self-love. Therapy with her typically uses goal-setting, skill practice, and honest conversation. People can expect guidance on coping during life changes, tools to manage panic or mood shifts, and work on body image or abandonment wounds.
The focus is on steady progress and applying new habits in daily life.
Barbara lists 9 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
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward a life that matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to change patterns that cause distress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, centers on understanding emotions and how they shape relationships and self-experience, helping people access and soften painful feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try methods that match the client’s needs. Sessions often combine elements from different approaches so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while still working on skills and goals.
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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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