Wanda Barnes
Compassionate support for families and individuals
- Credentials
- LCPC, LMHC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, Maine
- Languages
- English, Romanian
- Format
- Online sessions
About Wanda
Wanda Barnes is a licensed counselor based in Florida who supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar challenges, addictions, and parenting concerns. She works with clients on relationship issues, grief, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem. She also addresses ADHD, eating concerns, anger, and compassion fatigue.
Wanda holds both Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor credentials - LCPC and LMHC. Wanda takes a straightforward, warm approach in sessions.
Background and approach
She aims to create a space where people can speak openly about difficult feelings. She listens first, then helps identify practical steps that match each person’s situation. Her work often combines focused, skills-based techniques with attention to the person’s experience.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy guides sessions so the person’s goals lead the work. Wanda also uses mindfulness exercises to reduce stress and Solution-Focused Therapy to set short-term, achievable goals.
For people who have experienced trauma, she integrates trauma-focused methods to address painful memories and their effects. With 15 years of experience, she draws on a range of tools to suit different needs. Sessions are offered in English and Romanian.
Wanda practices in Florida and works with individuals and families on parenting and related family issues.
Therapeutic approaches and online options for families
Wanda commonly blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. It is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and everyday stress. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s goals and values, giving space to talk and decide what matters most. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices. Those tools can ease tension, improve focus, and help people respond more calmly to difficult moments. For trauma-related concerns, trauma-focused techniques are brought in carefully to address painful memories and their effects. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your situation. Together you decide what to keep and what to change, with adjustments made as progress and needs evolve. Online sessions offer flexibility for busy families. Video calls let you meet face to face from home, while phone sessions work when video is not practical. Live chat and text-based messaging provide short, on-the-go check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent care around work, school, and caregiving responsibilities.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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Maine
- Languages
- English, Romanian
Next step
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