Barbara Mey, LMHC

Barbara Mey is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 20 years of experience. She guides people toward greater self-awareness and helps them learn practical coping skills. Her work emphasizes a calm, respectful space where clients can set and move toward meaningful life goals.

She adapts her counseling style to each person’s needs and combines cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and acceptance-based practices. Her approach aims to make therapy understandable and useful, rather than full of jargon. Sessions focus on skills people can try between meetings and on small, steady changes that fit real life.

Barbara has worked in substance use treatment and community mental health settings. That background means she has experience with mood and anxiety disorders, trauma recovery, and substance-related concerns. She has also helped people facing relationship strain, codependency, and major life transitions.

Her additional focus includes aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and end-of-life concerns. She brings two decades of clinical experience to those topics while keeping the work practical and grounded.

Clients can expect a present, compassionate, and straightforward relationship. The therapist aims to be honest and open-minded, helping people find strategies that fit their daily lives and values.

How Barbara’s approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It’s often used when someone wants to live more in line with what matters, even while feeling anxious or stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going and then testing new ways of thinking and acting. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many day-to-day struggles. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus; it can help with stress, rumination, and emotional regulation.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide whether ACT, CBT, mindfulness, or a mix fits best. Goals, life demands, and personal preferences shape that choice rather than a fixed method handed down from the start.

The biography does not specify which online session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example, avoiding travel time, fitting a short check-in during a work break, or choosing a phone session when video is difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to virtual sessions so clients keep making progress even when schedules are tight.