Barbara Mey

Barbara Mey acts as a guide for people working toward greater self-awareness and personal growth, creating a calm and supportive environment where clients can learn practical coping skills and move toward their life goals. She adapts her counseling style to each person’s needs and draws on psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness-based interventions to shape a treatment approach that clients find comfortable and useful.

She is a Rhode Island licensed mental health counselor, holding a master’s degree from Providence College and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study from Salve Regina University. With 20 years of clinical experience, Barbara has worked in a substance abuse clinic providing group, individual, and family treatment and spent nearly a decade in community mental health serving people with a wide range of concerns, including mood and anxiety disorders, PTSD, substance use, schizophrenia, and personality disorders.

Barbara’s practice focuses on issues such as stress and anxiety, relationship and family conflicts, self-esteem and depression, trauma and recovery, addictions and codependency, grief, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting challenges, anger management, career-related stress, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and adapting to life changes. She also offers coaching and support for compassion fatigue. Above all, she considers a caring, honest therapeutic relationship essential and strives to remain present, compassionate, and open-minded throughout the work with each client.