Barbara Stanley, LPC
Texas · 4 years in practice
Barbara Stanley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with four years of counseling experience.
License and registration
- LPC, Texas
- 83984 · expires May 2027
- NPI
- 1881477107 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 4
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Barbara
Barbara Stanley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with four years of counseling experience. She meets people where they are and listens to understand what hurts and what they want to change. She offers a steady, nonjudgmental presence for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, or career and relationship strain.
Barbara focuses on practical steps the client can use between sessions. She draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and EMDR to address painful memories and reduce overwhelming reactions.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and solution-focused ideas are used to build calm, clearer thinking, and short-term progress. Her style is warm and straightforward. She points out strengths clients already have and helps them try new ways of handling problems.
If faith or spiritual beliefs matter to someone, she is open to including those topics when the client wants that included. Barbara also helps with issues like caregiving stress, codependency, loneliness, life purpose, and end-of-life concerns. She offers coaching-style support when someone is navigating career shifts or money stress.
Her approach balances emotional support with actionable planning. People who prefer a calm, encouraging guide may find her helpful. She aims to be an ally while clients take steps toward a life they choose.
Sessions are offered in English and held remotely through a range of online formats.
Focus 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
Approaches Barbara names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Barbara blends approaches in online sessions
Barbara uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different responses; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to work with distressing memories and their emotional impact in a paced way. Mindfulness therapy is offered as a way to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Barbara will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then try approaches that fit. She treats the process as collaborative, checking in and adjusting as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer discussion, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can work for brief check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy schedules and different life situations.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Barbara help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and career difficulties, and compassion fatigue among other concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm and straightforward, focusing on listening, identifying strengths, and trying practical steps between sessions.
What is her background and experience?
Barbara is a Licensed Professional Counselor with four years of counseling experience and additional years of social work background described in her biography.
Where is she licensed and located?
She holds a Texas LPC license and practices from Texas.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can take place by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are fees and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and services are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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