About April
April Barker-Casey is an Ohio-licensed social worker with over 25 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar, and life issues including ADHD. April approaches each person with respect and a belief that they know their life best.
She starts by listening to a person's story and identifying strengths they already have. Sessions are practical and straightforward.
Background and approach
April helps people set small, achievable goals and practices skills between meetings. Her work often addresses the impact of past hurt, including sexual assault, dissociation, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, isolation, and feelings of guilt or shame.
For people navigating adoption or foster care histories, she pays attention to how those experiences shape current reactions. April uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches as well as client-centered and narrative ideas to help reframe thoughts and create different habits. Motivational and solution-focused methods help people move toward concrete change when motivation is low or overwhelm is high.
She aims for clear, respectful sessions where people leave with a plan they can try that week. Taking the first step can feel hard, and April offers steady support while people practice new ways of coping and making decisions.
How April's approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's pace. The therapist reflects what matters most to the client and helps them find their own solutions, which works well over talk-based formats when people need space to sort feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts, emotions, and behaviors together. April uses simple exercises to notice unhelpful thinking and practice different responses, which can be assigned between sessions and reviewed over video or text. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change. It uses questions and reflections to uncover personal reasons for change and build small steps forward, a useful fit for people seeking help with motivation or life transitions. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. April will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods, and then adjust the plan together as progress is made. Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls approximate face-to-face conversation and allow screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between meetings, keep momentum, or have shorter touchpoints during a busy week.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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