About Tom
Dr. Tom Barbera is a clinical psychologist with nearly three decades of experience. He holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and practices in Indiana as IN Psychologist 20041728A.
He focuses on practical approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, sleep problems, and trauma-related concerns. He uses straightforward techniques to help people build coping skills. Typical work includes symptom monitoring, reading and writing exercises, and practicing specific strategies between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions are described as relaxed and compassionate while emphasizing concrete tools that can be used day to day. Before practicing in Indiana, he completed a clinical psychology internship with a specialization in health psychology and served as an Active Duty Air Force psychologist. He later joined a family medicine residency faculty and helped start a behavioral care clinic within a health system.
Those roles shaped his focus on integrating behavioral care with medical settings. Dr. Barbera often combines cognitive behavioral methods with mindfulness and motivational interviewing to address mood, sleep, and chronic health concerns.
He also uses trauma-focused approaches for trauma and abuse issues. The goal is to reduce distress and improve daily functioning through skills practice and clear feedback. Telehealth is part of his practice and he is licensed as an IN Psychologist.
People can expect a mix of discussion, skill-building, and short between-session assignments aimed at steady progress over time.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Dr. Barbera commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors through concrete exercises, which can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, insomnia, and mood problems. Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and awareness skills to reduce stress, improve sleep habits, and manage emotional reactivity.He also uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change and to strengthen commitment to goals like improving sleep, managing health conditions, or reducing avoidance. Choosing the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist and client work together to decide what feels most helpful based on goals, preferences, and how someone responds in early sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows for face-to-face interaction and teaching of skills, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging works well for ongoing coaching and short homework prompts. These options offer flexibility to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while still focusing on building practical coping skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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