About Barbara
Dr. Barbara Romfo is a licensed psychologist in West Virginia with 34 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and the challenges of life change.
Dr. Romfo also works with people managing grief, anger, self-esteem struggles, career decisions, and ADHD concerns. She brings particular attention to women’s issues, workplace stress, and the effects of chronic pain, illness, or disability.
Her practice combines listening with practical strategies to help people gain steadier routines and clearer thinking.
Background and approach
Sessions are guided by the person’s goals and paced to what feels manageable. Therapy sessions often use client-centered techniques to build a trusting conversation. She draws on cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior tools to teach skills for emotion regulation and impulse control.
Motivational interviewing and narrative approaches are used when people want to reframe life stories or strengthen motivation for change. People meet Dr. Romfo to talk through parenting pressures, relationship tension, codependency, or struggles finding purpose.
She helps clients translate insight into small, concrete steps they can try between sessions. The tone is warm and realistic, with attention to both feelings and daily routines. Her goal is to help people find more calm and direction.
She encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes and works collaboratively to set achievable goals.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, listening space where a person guides the conversation and the therapist follows. It helps people clarify what matters most and build trust in their own decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. It offers concrete tools for managing strong emotions and impulsivity, which many people find useful between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will partner with the person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean combining approaches or adjusting the plan as progress unfolds.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging helps track progress or share brief updates between sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can work on goals in ways that fit their schedule and energy.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
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