Barbara Parker
Compassionate, practical counseling for life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Barbara
Barbara Parker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado. She served in the United States Air Force and has nine years of counseling experience. Her background includes several years working in an inpatient program supporting men transitioning from prison into community life.
That work shaped her understanding of addiction, trauma, and the drive people bring to change. Barbara follows a person-centered style. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and helps them decide what to focus on.
Background and approach
She guides conversations about thoughts and behaviors and supports clients as they try new ways of handling problems. She does not give advice; instead she helps people clarify their goals and build practical plans. Her practice draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy.
These methods are used to address stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, parenting concerns, and other life challenges. Sessions move at a client’s pace and focus on real-life changes. Barbara also brings skills in motivational interviewing and mindfulness to help with motivation and emotional regulation.
She is familiar with issues related to aging, caregiving stress, attachment, and the effects of trauma and abuse. The emphasis is on small, manageable steps toward healthier routines. Clients interact with Barbara through different online formats, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She works in English and provides services from Colorado.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Barbara uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify their values and take small, meaningful actions even when emotions are difficult. ACT focuses on accepting feelings while committing to steps that match what matters most.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thought patterns and try different behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and practical day-to-day challenges. Client-Centered Therapy is another core influence - the therapist follows the client's lead, listens without judgment, and supports the client's own insights.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Barbara will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. The plan can be adjusted as progress is made and priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, phone sessions work when video is not convenient, and live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options help people fit counseling into school, work, caregiving, and other responsibilities while still using the therapeutic approaches described above.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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