About Barnetta
Barnetta Young helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, and relationship or family conflict. She also supports those coping with trauma, grief, intimacy concerns, eating or sleeping problems, parenting stress, anger, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Barnetta is a Licensed Professional Counselor, with 25 years of experience in Georgia.
Her style is calm and person-focused. She listens first, then helps clients set clear goals. Conversations are practical and down-to-earth.
How Barnetta works
She uses real-life strategies people can try between sessions. Barnetta draws on client-centered work that centers a person’s own values and choices. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and change behaviors.
Solution-focused methods help people identify small, useful steps toward their goals. She has a long history helping people from diverse backgrounds and those facing multicultural concerns. Her experience includes addressing addiction, domestic violence effects, caregiver stress, attachment and abandonment issues, and struggles with isolation or midlife transitions.
Sessions aim to teach coping skills, improve communication, and reduce symptoms that get in the way of daily life. Barnetta works with each person to tailor strategies to their situation and goals. Her approach is steady, respectful, and practical.
Barnetta lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Barnetta works with
The areas below are the ones Barnetta selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online counseling
Barnetta uses client-centered therapy to follow each person's priorities and values. This approach focuses on listening, understanding how someone sees their situation, and supporting choices that feel right for them. It is helpful for issues tied to identity, multicultural concerns, or emotional pain.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, or sleeping and eating problems.
Solution-focused therapy is another tool she draws on when clients want quick, goal-oriented steps. It helps identify small, concrete changes that can lead to measurable progress in relationships, addiction recovery, or day-to-day functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Barnetta will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people keep visual contact while joining from a convenient place. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a short check-in or a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick updates, ongoing support, or when typing feels easier than talking.
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