About Barry
Barry Plumlee helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. He is Barry Plumlee, a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 21 years of experience. He practices in Missouri and offers work focused on emotional and practical needs.
Barry uses a straightforward, respectful style in sessions. He listens first, then helps clients set clear goals. He draws on several approaches to match what each person needs in the moment.
How Barry works
His background includes long experience in community mental health and child and family services, along with work with adults and marital concerns. That range influences how he thinks about problems like mood disorders, grief, addiction, and coping with life changes. Sessions tend to focus on building skills and improving communication.
Barry will help identify patterns that get in the way and try simple, testable changes. He also supports people working through trauma, compassion fatigue, and difficult family of origin issues. Practical matters are kept flexible to fit clients' lives.
He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, and schedules often include evenings and Sunday afternoons. Barry holds the LMFT and LCMFT credentials and brings a calm, solution-focused approach to the work.
Barry lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Barry works with
The areas below are the ones Barry selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMFT, LCMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person as they are. The therapist offers empathy and helps clients clarify goals and choices, which is useful for stress, relationship difficulties, and self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change patterns that feed anxiety, depression, sleep problems, or anger.
The Gottman Method concentrates on communication and conflict patterns in relationships. It teaches specific skills for clearer dialogue, rebuilding trust, and managing recurring arguments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up to select or combine methods. That choice is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction when that matters. Phone sessions work well for lower bandwidth or when being on camera feels difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy evenings and Sunday afternoons.
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