About Barbara
Barbara Schuver is a licensed clinical social worker in Missouri with 21 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. Her approach is steady and person-focused, aiming to help clients feel understood and make practical changes.
Barbara listens first and then works with each person to set clear, doable goals. She uses simple tools to tackle sleeping problems, self-esteem issues, parenting strains, and career stress.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and oriented toward real-life steps that can change daily routines. Her background includes work with a wide range of life transitions and family-related concerns. That includes blended family issues, caregiving stress, fatherhood concerns, and aging or geriatric questions.
She also helps people dealing with eating and food-related issues, codependency, and forgiveness work. Barbara draws on several approaches when they fit the person and the problem. She blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered methods to match needs.
This mix supports people facing bipolar symptoms, anger, intimacy-related struggles, and communication problems. Therapy is collaborative and paced to the individual. Barbara encourages small experiments between sessions, clearer communication skills, and coping strategies for life changes.
Her style is calm, pragmatic, and focused on what will make life feel more manageable.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Barbara uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. This approach can help with anxiety, avoidance, and life changes. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors that improve mood and sleep. CBT is useful for depression, sleeping problems, and persistent worries.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Barbara will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan as needed. The process is collaborative, with practical exercises and homework agreed on between sessions.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can fit short check-ins or quick reflections between meetings. These options make it simpler to keep consistent appointments around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English