About Earl
Earl Barrios is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in California with 38 years of experience. He centers sessions on practical tools and clear steps so people can manage anxiety, stress, and overwhelming feelings. He frames therapy as a partnership where the client’s story and strengths guide the work.
His approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and build calmer responses. He also uses existential ideas to address questions about meaning and life direction.
Background and approach
For trauma-related concerns he incorporates eye movement desensitization and reprocessing when appropriate. Barrios works with a wide range of concerns including depression, mood disorders, panic and obsessive-compulsive patterns, and issues tied to identity such as gender dysphoria and LGBT matters. He helps with relationship and communication problems, divorce and separation, parenting strain, and anger or impulsivity challenges.
He also offers coaching-style support for life purpose and career direction. Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-focused. People can expect to learn concrete skills they can use between meetings, such as grounding, thought-restructuring, and communication techniques.
The therapist emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. He conducts sessions in English and is open to international clients. Formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Costs vary by location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Work
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavioral changes. It is often used for anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, and mood concerns and lends itself well to homework and short skill practices between sessions.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce stress and reactivity. These practices help with anger, stress, and disrupting cycles of worry by strengthening present-moment awareness.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR, is used to reduce the emotional intensity of traumatic memories. In sessions this involves guided bilateral stimulation alongside memory work to lessen distress and improve coping for trauma and abuse survivors.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, comfort level, and preferences. That may mean combining techniques, adjusting pace, or switching focus as needs evolve.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps people keep momentum between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work when travel or relocation occurs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Gender dysphoria
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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