About Barbara
Dr. Barbara Wasowska helps people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin. She meets each person with respect and sensitivity while focusing on real problems like relationships, anxiety, grief, and low self-esteem.
Her straightforward style is meant to make starting therapy less intimidating for a worried parent or anyone nervous about the first step. With 14 years of clinical experience, Dr. Wasowska combines practical tools with listening to understand what matters to each person.
How Barbara works
She looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and past attachments shape current struggles and helps clients build coping skills for daily life. Sessions move at a pace that fits the individual's needs and goals. Her work addresses trauma and abuse, intimacy-related problems, depression, panic and mood symptoms, and the stress that comes with career or life transitions.
She also supports people facing multicultural concerns, immigration-related stress, cancer, aging issues, and feelings of isolation. Dr. Wasowska uses a mix of approaches tailored to the situation, including cognitive behavioral methods, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, client-centered listening, and skills taught in dialectical behavior approaches.
She adapts techniques based on what each person responds to and the changes they want to make. Therapy with her is collaborative. She helps clients set clear, achievable goals and practices new ways of coping between sessions.
Her aim is to leave people feeling more connected to themselves and more able to handle life’s challenges.
Barbara lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and decisions tied to life purpose. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current ways of relating; it helps when patterns of closeness or avoidance cause pain in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change thinking and behavior patterns that contribute to mood and anxiety problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Wasowska will discuss goals, preferences, and past experiences to choose or combine methods that fit. This is a collaborative process so techniques are adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is an issue or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins, shorter exchanges between sessions, or ongoing support when schedules are tight. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep work moving forward.
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