About Barbara
Barbara Mey is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Rhode Island with 20 years of clinical experience. She helps people learn coping skills and make changes that matter to them. Her work often begins with listening closely and finding practical steps forward.
Barbara adapts her approach to fit each person. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness tools alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and solution-focused ideas. Sessions focus on skills people can try between meetings and on tracking small shifts over time.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in a substance abuse clinic and nearly a decade in community mental health. That experience involved group and individual work with people facing mood and anxiety problems, trauma, and substance-related issues. She has supported people with grief, eating and sleeping problems, bipolar concerns, and addiction-related challenges.
Barbara also helps with relationship and family dynamics, codependency, caregiver stress, and life-stage issues such as aging and end-of-life concerns. She pays attention to communication struggles, infidelity, blended family stress, and the practical burdens of chronic illness. People can expect a calm, straightforward style.
Barbara aims to be present and compassionate while offering direct tools and gentle coaching. She works with clients to set achievable goals and to try techniques that address everyday life problems.
Approaches that translate to online care
Barbara often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in her work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to change mood and reactions, which fits well into short exercises and home practice. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve sleep, and those practices can be guided over video or audio.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify values and take small committed actions toward what matters. Deciding which approaches to use is a team effort - the therapist and client review goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy provides flexibility for different needs. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging can suit short updates, coaching-style prompts, or when someone prefers writing between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to practice skills in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English