Dr. Dr. Barbara Humbles
Compassionate, experienced therapist for family concerns
- Credentials
- LPC, LMFT
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Barbara
Dr. Dr. Barbara Humbles greets people with a straightforward, calm presence.
She is a licensed professional counselor - LPC - and a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - based in Louisiana with 35 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strains, grief, addictions, trauma, sleep problems, anger, career worries, and depression. Her work also addresses topics like compassion fatigue, intimacy concerns, and LGBT issues.
Her approach is practical and conversational.
Background and approach
She creates space for honest talk and helps people sort through feelings and choices without judgment. Sessions focus on clear steps people can try between meetings, and on rebuilding routines that get daily life moving again. Barbara draws on decades of work across many settings.
That background informs how she tailors support to each situation. She pays attention to family dynamics and life transitions, including blended family concerns, caregiving stress, divorce and separation, and fatherhood questions. She also has experience with issues that can follow trauma or crisis, such as domestic violence, substance problems, first responder stress, and coping after disasters.
Her clinical eye includes aging and geriatric issues and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder when relevant. Starting therapy with her begins with a straightforward conversation about what matters most now. She works alongside clients to set practical goals and to adapt the plan as progress unfolds.
Practical approaches and online access
Barbara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-world change. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful patterns and replacing them with manageable actions to reduce anxiety and improve sleep. This method helps people regain daily structure and feel less overwhelmed. Another approach targets relationship and family dynamics by clarifying communication patterns and teaching small, repeatable skills to reduce conflict and build cooperation.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Barbara will listen to the clients concerns, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods that fit. She adjusts the plan as progress is made so the work stays practical and relevant to present needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to meet around work, caregiving, or medical appointments and to maintain momentum between meetings. Licensed professionals can deliver the same guided conversations and skill-building work through these formats, while allowing clients to engage in ways that suit their daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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- Stop at any point