About Barbara
Barbara Burrow is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She supports clients facing relationship strain, anger, career shifts, and major life changes. Barbara aims to help people regain steadiness and find clearer direction.
She listens first and asks about goals in the opening session. From there she and the client build a practical plan with steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful patterns, practicing new responses, and tracking progress over time. Barbara draws on a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address concerns such as phobias, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress. She also helps people work through communication problems, control issues, and the fallout from divorce or separation.
Topics like guilt, emptiness, and questions of life purpose are part of her work as well. Her approach is collaborative and goal-oriented. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, skill-building exercises, and check-ins about what is or is not helping.
The focus is on what a person wants to change and practical steps to get there. Barbara has nine years of counseling experience and carries the LPC credential. She offers services in English and conducts sessions using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
The subscription model for sessions may be canceled at any time.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Barbara uses a mix of evidence-based techniques that translate well to online work. One approach focuses on exposure and gradual practice to reduce phobic reactions and social anxiety; it helps people face feared situations in small, manageable steps while tracking progress. Another approach centers on skill-building for managing anxiety and stress, such as breathing strategies, thought monitoring, and behavioral experiments that people can practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the early work. The therapist will review goals and preferences, and then suggest techniques to try together. That process is collaborative so adjustments can be made if something does not fit or is not helping.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low, live chat suits briefer check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options allow people to choose what feels most practical for their schedule and comfort, while still doing focused therapeutic work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
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- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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