About Barbara
Barbara Chopyk is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, self-esteem struggles, and career concerns. She brings eight years of clinical experience and a calm, straightforward style to each session. She aims to make beginning therapy feel less overwhelming for someone taking that first step.
Barbara focuses on creating a space where clients can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings without judgment. She uses practical tools and steady support to address day-to-day problems like low motivation and worry.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a pace that fits each person’s needs and goals. Her background includes helping people cope with depression and the effects of past abuse or traumatic events. She also works with issues tied to abandonment, attachment, and relationship patterns.
Additional areas she addresses include chronic illness and complex or co-occurring concerns. Barbara draws from approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to tailor practical steps in therapy. She also uses narrative methods to help people make sense of their stories and the Gottman Method for relationship communication work.
Based in Pennsylvania, Barbara holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and combines clear, everyday language with therapeutic skills. Her aim is to help clients build coping strategies, increase emotional clarity, and move toward goals that matter to them.
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and committed action. It helps people accept difficult personal experiences while taking steps toward what matters in life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to teach practical skills for reducing symptoms and improving daily functioning. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) involves structured processing of traumatic memories to reduce their emotional intensity and the distress they cause.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people keep visual connection for deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, safety planning, or keeping consistent contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, New Jersey
- Languages
- English