Barbara Mey

Barbara Mey is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 20 years of clinical experience. She frames therapy as a guided journey toward greater self-awareness and practical change. Her approach is calm and straightforward, focused on teaching coping skills that help people move toward their life goals.

Barbara adapts her style to each person's needs and uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness-based work. She pays attention to what feels comfortable for the client and adjusts methods as therapy progresses. This makes sessions feel collaborative rather than prescriptive.

Her background includes work in substance abuse treatment where she led groups and individual sessions, and nearly a decade in community mental health. That experience brought her steady exposure to mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, substance use, and personality-related concerns. She has helped people recovering from addiction and those supporting loved ones who struggle with substance use.

Barbara works with a wide range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and family issues, anger, self-esteem, and life transitions. She also assists people coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress, and end-of-life concerns. Her practice often involves teaching practical skills for daily living and emotional regulation.

Her style is present and compassionate. She aims to build an honest working relationship and to keep therapy grounded in achievable steps. People who want a steady, skills-focused guide may find her approach a good fit.

How Barbara’s approaches translate to online work

Barbara often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in her practice. CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and focuses on practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. ACT emphasizes values and committed actions, helping people accept difficult feelings while moving toward what matters to them.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Barbara treats this as a collaborative process and will help clients choose methods that fit their goals and daily life. She checks in about what is and isn’t working and adjusts the plan together with the client.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make sessions easier to fit into a busy routine, support shorter check-ins between longer visits, and reduce travel time. It also makes it simpler to continue work during life transitions while keeping a consistent therapeutic relationship.