About Barbara
Barbara Gibbons is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and questions about gender and sexuality. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at making therapy feel understandable and doable.
Barbara works with adults managing panic attacks, bipolar symptoms, grief, anger, and sleep problems. She also supports people dealing with codependency, compassion fatigue, and the stress that comes from major life changes.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how concerns overlap, such as co-morbidity of mood and substance issues. Her approach combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with mindfulness and trauma-focused methods. In sessions she helps clients identify unhelpful thoughts, practice calming skills, and process past hurts at a pace that feels manageable.
Sessions are practical and goal-oriented while remaining flexible to each person’s needs. Barbara brings 11 years of clinical experience and holds a LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She maintains licensure in Pennsylvania and practices in Delaware.
Her work includes experience with veterans and people exploring gender dysphoria and sexuality concerns. Therapy options include video and phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Fees vary by location and availability and use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, a person uses the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules a time that works for them.
Online approaches that focus on skills and healing
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try new ways of responding to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to ease stress and improve sleep. These exercises can help with anger, panic, and ongoing worry by creating calmer moments in the day.
Trauma-Focused Therapy gives space to process painful experiences safely and at a manageable pace. It pairs coping skills with careful exploration of past events to reduce reactivity and improve daily functioning.
Choosing the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will work together with each person to set goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on progress and comfort. That collaborative approach helps tailor sessions to the issues that matter most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face work when preferred, while phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing written reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Delaware
- Languages
- English