Barbara Parker

Barbara Parker is a licensed professional counselor based in Colorado with nine years of clinical experience. She is also a Veteran of the United States Air Force and spent the past four years working in an inpatient program supporting men transitioning from prison into community corrections.

That work strengthened her appreciation for the will and drive people bring to overcome addictions and heal from family histories and trauma. The men she worked with served as a daily source of inspiration for her commitment to helping others change their lives.

Her counseling style is rooted in a person-centered approach - clients direct what they want to address while she applies expertise in the process of change. She emphasizes that by examining and challenging unhelpful thoughts, related behaviors and actions tend to shift, and she often uses that pathway when supporting someone who wants to reduce discomfort or create different outcomes.

Barbara does not provide advice in the traditional sense. Instead she collaborates with clients to build understanding of the issue and then develops a shared plan to reduce the discomfort they are experiencing. She holds a Colorado professional counselor license (CO LPC 15835), which qualifies her to provide clinical counseling in the state, and she looks forward to the opportunity to work with new clients.