About Pamela
Pamela Barrigar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 15 years of experience to her practice in Illinois. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and changes in life. Pamela listens without judgment and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Clients meet a therapist who balances warmth with clear direction. Pamela uses approaches that encourage acceptance, skill building, and present-moment awareness. Sessions tend to include straightforward tools for coping with panic, anger, or overwhelming emotions.
Background and approach
Her work often centers on everyday struggles like relationship conflict, communication problems, and feeling stuck in a life transition. She also supports people dealing with trauma, addiction concerns, attention difficulties, and the emotional strain of caregiving and aging. Pamela aims to make conversations understandable and useful.
Appointments offer space to talk through painful events and to develop new ways of handling stress. She draws on evidence-informed methods such as cognitive-behavioral strategies and mindfulness-based practices to shift unhelpful thoughts and to strengthen coping skills. Pamela also incorporates acceptance-focused ideas to help people live by their values even during hard times.
Therapy with Pamela is collaborative and paced to the person’s needs. She encourages small, achievable changes and tracks progress together. Her style is calm and direct, suited for people who want practical support paired with compassionate listening.
How Pamela’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting pushed around by them. It emphasizes values and small, meaningful actions to move toward a life that matters to the person.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with real-life actions. It is useful for anxiety, panic, depression, and negative self-talk because it gives concrete skills to change reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Pamela will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video lets people use visual cues and practice skills together. Phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for simpler check-ins. Chat and messaging allow shorter, frequent check-ins and can fit around busy schedules.
These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into life while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Arizona
- Languages
- English