About Barbara
Barbara Schuver is a Missouri-licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at practical change rather than jargon.
She begins sessions by listening closely to what matters most. That helps her and the client set clear, doable goals. Sessions mix talking with exercises people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Barbara uses a few different approaches depending on the issue. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behavior. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches skills to live with difficult feelings while pursuing valued goals.
Client-centered work emphasizes understanding and respect for each person’s priorities. She often supports people dealing with parenting stress, sleep problems, career transitions, and caregiving strain. Other common concerns she addresses include bipolar mood challenges, eating and food-related issues, codependency, and family of origin matters.
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Conversations are collaborative; she helps people try new ways of coping and then adjusts the approach based on what is working. Barbara aims to make therapy practical and manageable for everyday life.
How these approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then taking small steps toward the things that matter most. It can help with anxiety, grief, chronic stress, and situations that feel overwhelming.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors that change mood and daily functioning. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.
Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person’s own goals guide the work. This approach supports self-understanding and steady progress over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose or combine methods and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick skill reminders, or when someone needs to fit therapy into a busy day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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