Barnetta Young
Compassionate support for parenting and family stress
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Barnetta
Barnetta Young is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on common parenting and family concerns like stress, anxiety, relationship and family problems, and coping with life changes. She also addresses difficulties such as addictions, grief, trauma and abuse, mood concerns, self-esteem, and intimacy-related issues.
Her manner is steady and respectful, aimed at helping parents and caregivers feel heard and find practical next steps.
Background and approach
Barnetta draws on clear, straightforward methods rather than jargon. She listens first, then helps map small, manageable changes clients can try between sessions. Sessions tend to focus on concrete skills to reduce distress, improve communication, and rebuild routines that affect day-to-day family life.
The work is collaborative and paced by each person’s needs. Her training combines client-centered techniques with cognitive behavioral tools and solution-focused methods. That means she helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts, try different behaviors, and set short-term goals.
Those tools are used in ways that fit each person’s background and circumstances. Barnetta’s practice pays attention to cultural context and real-life stresses like caregiving strain, divorce and separation, and multicultural concerns. She brings practical problem solving to issues such as codependency, communication problems, and control issues.
Her aim is to help people build clearer routines and healthier responses at home. Sessions are offered in English and are delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She holds the Georgia LPC license GA LPC LPC003985 and works with adults facing a range of life and family challenges.
Simple approaches for online family and parenting support
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening with respect and following the client’s lead. It helps people feel understood and clarifies what matters most to them in family life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress that affects daily routines. Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on short-term goals and small steps that lead to visible change, which can be useful when parents want clear strategies to try between sessions.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Barnetta will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That plan can change as progress is made, with the therapist and client checking in regularly about what helps and what needs adjusting.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling family schedules. Video calls let participants keep visual connection, phone sessions work when video is not possible, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing problem-solving. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to continue work on parenting and family matters from home.
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.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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