About Barbara
Barbara Carroll is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and depression. She brings ten years of experience to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Barbara speaks English and works with adults seeking clearer ways to cope and move forward.
She centers sessions on what each person already knows about their life. Barbara treats clients as the expert on their story and offers tools to build on their strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions mix skill teaching, gentle challenge, and space to process difficult emotions. Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for processing past traumatic memories. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques to support lasting change.
Barbara often helps people work through attachment wounds, family of origin issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and feelings of emptiness, guilt, or shame. She has additional experience with dissociation, domestic violence, and coping after disasters. In sessions she aims for clear goals and small, steady progress.
Therapy is offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can choose the format that fits their life. To begin, a short online questionnaire and scheduling step will match a client with her availability.
Therapeutic approaches used in online care
Barbara commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behavior patterns, which can reduce anxiety and low mood. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal responses. When past trauma is a central concern, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing may be used to help process traumatic memories and reduce their hold on daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy itself. The therapist will work collaboratively with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. This makes the process flexible and tailored to individual needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives or limited travel options. Video calls enable face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a short break during a workday, and live chat or text-based messaging allow brief check-ins and written reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and use therapy tools where they matter most.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English