Barbara Stanley is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with four years of counseling experience.
01About Barbara
Barbara Stanley is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with four years of counseling experience. She listens first and helps people name what is painful or stressful. Her style is steady and straightforward, aimed at helping people take practical steps forward.
Barbara meets people where they are and focuses on realistic changes. She uses clear techniques to manage stress, anxiety, depression, and career strain. She also supports people facing grief, trauma, compassion fatigue, and life transition issues.
Background and approach
Sessions often include short-term problem solving and skills people can practice between meetings. Barbara draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral work to change unhelpful patterns and mindfulness to reduce stress. She can include faith or spiritual concerns when a person wants that as part of counseling.
Her work also addresses relationship challenges, communication problems, codependency, abandonment concerns, and caregiving strain. She helps clients sort through money worries, midlife decisions, and questions about life purpose in plain language rather than jargon. Barbara describes herself as an ally on the path toward change.
She offers practical feedback, reminders of personal strengths, and new ways to consider difficult situations. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make that step clearer and more manageable.
02Credentials
- LPC (Texas)
- License 83984 · expires May 2027
- NPI
- 1881477107 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Barbara lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Methods Barbara names
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
These are the methods Barbara names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Therapeutic approaches available online and how they help
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches practical steps to change them. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and patterns that affect daily life. EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, focuses on reducing the emotional intensity of upsetting memories through structured processing and can help with trauma-related symptoms and intrusive memories.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history, and preferences and recommend a plan. That plan can combine methods and change over time so it fits what the person needs and how they respond.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework, or when someone prefers written conversation. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a week and keep continuity across life changes.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Barbara help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, career and relationship issues, grief, trauma and compassion fatigue, plus related struggles like codependency and caregiver stress.
What is her general therapy approach and style?
Her style is practical and conversational. She focuses on skills and short-term strategies alongside deeper work when needed.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has four years of professional experience as a counselor and a long history working with people in care roles prior to that.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is an LPC, licensed in Texas, and practices with that credential in the state.
Which languages are supported and can international clients join?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs.
How are costs handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on the listed availability.
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