About Barbara
Barbara Mey is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 20 years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, steady presence and helps people learn practical coping skills. Families, caregivers, and individuals facing addiction or grief are among the concerns she addresses.
Barbara works from Rhode Island and communicates in English. Barbara frames therapy as a guided process of self-awareness and skill building. She adapts her style to each person and checks in about which methods feel right.
Background and approach
Her work often focuses on improving relationships, managing anxiety and mood concerns, and coping with life changes. Sessions emphasize straightforward tools clients can use between meetings. Her background includes a master’s degree from Providence College and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study from Salve Regina University.
Much of her early career was in community mental health, where she supported people with mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, substance use, and serious mental health conditions. She also has experience in substance abuse treatment settings with both groups and individuals. Barbara often draws on cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different behaviors.
She also uses acceptance and commitment principles and solution-focused conversations to clarify goals and identify small steps forward. Motivational interviewing informs how she approaches change and readiness. Clients can expect a respectful, honest working relationship.
Barbara emphasizes presence and compassion while helping people build routines and responses that fit their life. Her approach is practical, patient, and aimed at measurable change over time.
How Barbara’s Approaches Work Online
Barbara often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and trying concrete changes to see what helps. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus and sleep.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas when appropriate, helping people clarify values and take meaningful actions even with difficult thoughts or feelings. Choosing which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist and client will talk about goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what feels most useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full session with visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is low, chat suits brief check-ins or when typing feels easier, and messaging supports ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help fit therapy into busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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