About Barbara
Barbara brings over 10 years of experience in working with teens, adults, and families in a variety of settings. She has worked in private practice, the Biofeedback Education and Treatment Center, Genesis Counseling for addiction and worked with teens and young adults at Eastfield Counseling Services/Gateway to College.
Her theoretical orientation is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Exposure Response Prevention (ERP), and Goal Oriented which she uses to help her clients find ways to make changes in their lives that will allow them to look forward to the future with hope. Her focus is on treating OCD, and anxiety as well as symptoms related to trauma through the use of Cognitive Behavior Therapy counseling.
She provides Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Comprehensive Behavioral Treatment Model (ComB) for trichotillomania and excoriation disorder (skin picking), and ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention) therapy for OCD and anxiety in my practice.
Her focus is treating OCD, Anxiety, trichotillomania, and dermatillomania.
She has experience in working with individuals who suffer with OCD, anxiety, depression, trichotillomania, dermatillomania, self-harm, self-esteem, stress, addiction, codependency, Emetophobia, Panic Disorder, perfectionism, relationship OCD, scrupulosity, violent/sexual obsessions, and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD).
Barbara has been happily married for 33 years and has 2 awesome children and fur-babies, Kota and Furbie.