About Barbara
Barbara Kaminer is a licensed clinical social worker with nearly 40 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and related concerns. She practices in Kentucky and focuses on practical support for everyday strains like sleep problems, parenting stress, relationship and intimacy issues, and coping with life changes.
Her work also covers addictions, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and concerns faced by veterans and first responders. She takes a straightforward and encouraging approach.
Background and approach
Sessions are interactive and cooperative. She asks clients to be honest and willing to try small changes between meetings. The aim is to notice what feels off early and address it before problems deepen.
Barbara blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. She uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. Solution-focused techniques help set practical goals and quick steps toward improvement.
Her style is relaxed but direct. She listens without judgment and offers clear feedback. Clients who prefer a mix of listening and action tend to do well with this approach.
Barbara offers online options including video and phone sessions, plus live chat and text messaging when combined with other formats. She prefers to see or hear clients rather than work by text only. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
Ways Barbara Uses Talk and Skill Work Online
Barbara blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness. Client-centered work means the therapist listens closely and follows the person’s concerns, helping them name what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change patterns that maintain anxiety or depression. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus.Choosing an approach is a team effort. Barbara will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before to find the best fit. She adapts methods over time and checks in to see what is working and what needs changing so the plan stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video visits let the therapist see nonverbal cues and work closely on skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text are useful for brief messages, notes, or follow-up between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain regular contact while working toward goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English