About Barbara
Barbara Morris is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida who helps people facing grief, anxiety, depression, and big life changes. She offers a calm, non-judgmental presence and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Barbara combines several approaches so sessions feel useful and focused.
Barbara has 16 years of experience working in social work settings. Her background includes child welfare, parenting challenges, family crisis, developmental health concerns, and end-of-life care.
Background and approach
She holds a Master of Social Work from Barry University and a Bachelor of Social Work with a minor in psychology. In sessions she starts where the person is, meeting them at their level and pace. She blends client-centered listening with cognitive techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and build new coping habits.
Mindfulness tools and skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy are used when people need calm, emotion regulation, or better stress tolerance. Barbara also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods to help people set clear goals and take small steps forward. That can look like planning short experiments, practicing new responses, or rehearsing conversations.
She helps people work through parenting strain, relationship issues, anger, and questions about life purpose. Practical concerns such as career stress, ADHD, compassion fatigue, aging, and forgiveness are part of her focus areas. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people find clearer choices and more steady coping in day-to-day life.
Approach-driven online therapy that meets you where you are
Barbara often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on listening and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and understood. This approach helps when someone needs a steady space to talk through grief, parenting strain, or relationship concerns.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a practical method that looks at thoughts and behaviors. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thinking, try different responses, and develop new coping habits for anxiety, depression, or stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, and then adjust methods over time. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video is useful for longer therapy and face-to-face conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for a quick check-in, and text lets people send brief updates or reflections between sessions. This range of formats supports flexibility and makes it easier to keep therapy consistent with a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English