About Barbara
Barbara Edelman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, bipolar symptoms, and ADHD. She works with adults facing life transitions, parenting strains, intimacy concerns, and issues that affect day-to-day functioning. Her tone is straightforward and practical, focused on clear steps clients can try between sessions.
Barbara uses a blend of client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practices in session.
Background and approach
She aims to help people notice unhelpful patterns, try small behavioral changes, and build habits that reduce overwhelm. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused rather than lecture-style. Her background includes a decade of clinical experience across a range of concerns such as trauma, family of origin issues, body image, and co-occurring conditions.
That experience informs how she tailors strategies to each person’s situation rather than applying the same plan to everyone. In practice she helps people work on communication problems, anger, codependency, and career stress, as well as aging-related and neurodiversity concerns like autism spectrum traits. She emphasizes skills people can use right away, including breathing and grounding, cognitive reframes, and step-by-step behavior changes.
Barbara encourages a collaborative approach. Together with each client she sets realistic goals, tracks small wins, and adjusts strategies when needed. The emphasis is on steady progress and practical tools that fit into busy lives.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience without judgment. It helps people feel heard and respected, which can be the first step toward making changes in relationships, self-esteem, or life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and many daily struggles.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices to notice the present moment and reduce reactivity. Brief breathing and grounding exercises can lessen overwhelm and support better focus and emotional regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. Clients and the therapist decide together what to try and adjust the plan based on what helps.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people reflect between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep progress consistent over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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