About Barbara
Barbara Edelman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship problems, and phobias. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at helping someone feel steadier in daily life.
She uses talk-based work that centers the client's experience. Sessions look at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and what small changes can make a real difference.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are offered to help with overwhelming emotions and racing thoughts. Barbara has worked as a counselor for 10 years. That experience includes helping people adjust to big life changes like divorce, parenting challenges, aging, and career shifts.
She also addresses issues such as ADHD, trauma and abuse, body image, and problems that stem from family of origin patterns. Her approach draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful space where people can be heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with more workable ones.
Mindfulness Therapy supports attention to the present moment and reduces reactivity. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Clients can expect clear suggestions and homework when it helps.
Barbara aims to help people build tools for coping, improve communication, and strengthen self-esteem over time.
Approaches for online care and practical work
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and creating a respectful space. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects what is shared, and helps people feel understood as they sort through their concerns. This approach is useful for building trust and for working on relationship or self-esteem issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions. It offers specific exercises to change unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, phobias, and anger. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and notice patterns of worry or rumination.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods that match those needs. The plan can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls work well for a full session that resembles face-to-face work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, flexible check-ins during busy weeks and can help maintain momentum between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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