Jon Barnes
Helping people navigate family and life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jon
Jon Barnes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with ten years of clinical experience. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and family or relationship challenges. He also addresses parenting concerns, sleep and eating problems, anger, attention issues, and coping with major life changes.
Sessions are grounded in clear, direct conversation focused on practical next steps. Jon uses a person-centered attitude in sessions, which means he listens first and follows each person’s lead.
Background and approach
He draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - ACT - to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different responses. He also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT - skills for managing emotions and Attachment-Based ideas when relationships or early losses matter.
Jon trained in human services and earned a Master of Arts in Counseling in 2009. He combines that background with ten years of work supporting people through addiction, trauma, family stress, and mood challenges. He keeps language straightforward and avoids jargon.
Therapy is collaborative. Jon helps set achievable goals and checks in about what is working. He adapts tools to fit each person’s situation rather than following one fixed method.
Sessions may include talking through recent events, practicing new coping techniques, and planning small changes to test between meetings. He aims to make the work practical and usable in everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - ACT - helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting caught by them, then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and difficult life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like stress, sleep problems, or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT - teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness when emotional regulation is a challenge.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to weigh goals, preferences, and what has helped before. Together they try methods, adjust as needed, and pick tools that fit day-to-day life rather than assuming one single model is best.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel and let people use techniques between meetings. Licensed professionals can coach skills, run short experiments, and keep progress moving forward even when meeting remotely.
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.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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