About Astra
Astra Barkley is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and life transitions. Astra aims to make sessions straightforward and useful for parents and adults who need clear steps forward.
She uses a mix of approaches so sessions fit the person sitting across from her. That can mean talking through current problems, breaking worries into smaller parts, or testing new ways to handle daily struggles.
Background and approach
She draws on Client-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral, and Solution-Focused ideas to shape plans that people can try between visits. Her background includes work across nonprofit agencies, schools, and personal counseling settings. That experience informs how she supports people facing trauma, grief, addictions, and multicultural concerns.
Her history with foster and adoptive systems gives her perspective on parenting stress and advocacy work. Astra also teaches undergraduate psychology courses and is enrolled in a counselor education and supervision doctoral program. Teaching keeps her thinking about practical ways to explain concepts and help learners apply them.
This blend of classroom and hands-on practice guides how she explains coping skills and sets achievable goals. In sessions she listens first, then suggests small experiments to try at home. Clients can expect focused conversations, clear steps, and adjustments as progress is made.
The emphasis is on what helps in everyday life rather than long lists of theory.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Astra commonly draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person’s lead, which helps build trust and clarity about goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks worries and behaviors into parts and teaches practical skills to change patterns, useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy when people want brief, goal-directed work that focuses on concrete next steps. This approach helps identify small changes that can be tried between sessions and then adjusted based on outcomes. Determining which approach fits best is part of the early conversations; the therapist and client choose methods based on needs, preferences, and goals in a collaborative way.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit counseling into busy days. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text is useful for shorter check-ins and written reflections. These options offer flexibility so people can choose what matches their routine and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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