Barbara Reed, LPC, LMHC

Approaches that guide online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what she hears, and helps people identify their own solutions. This approach is helpful when someone wants empathy and a nonjudgmental place to sort through feelings.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Barbara uses CBT techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes. This is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and parenting challenges where specific skills can make daily life easier.

Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It uses focused questions and planning to boost commitment and overcome hesitation, which can be useful for addictions, motivation, or making parenting adjustments.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to the client's goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean using CBT tools one week and a solution-focused check-in the next to keep progress moving.

Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people talk face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a simple check-in or work better when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, reflections, and coaching between longer sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.