Barbara Kass

Barbara Kass is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Maryland with 11 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, career concerns, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. She also focuses on codependency, dependent personality, life purpose, and women's issues.

She describes counseling as a collaborative process. Sessions are meant to address the concerns you bring and the goals you want to work toward. Conversations include practical skills like mindfulness and breathing exercises alongside talk therapy.

Her background includes work in hospitals, clinics, county services, and private practice. She graduated from Loyola University and has a specialty in pastoral counseling, so she is comfortable addressing spiritual and religious matters when clients want that included.

Therapy draws on client-centered and humanistic ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, cognitive processing approaches, and rational emotive behavior methods. Methods in sessions can include expressive writing, meditation, and body awareness practices to help manage symptoms and build coping tools.

Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Barbara aims to help people reconnect with their own capacity to heal and make practical changes when life feels stuck or uncertain.

How her therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the client. In practice that means the therapist reflects what she hears, asks clarifying questions, and helps the client name goals and next steps. This approach can help when someone is unsure about direction or wants a space to sort out values and choices.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions influence each other. Sessions often include identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying new ways of responding. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, stress, and career-related worries where concrete steps and practice are useful.

Existential Therapy addresses big questions about meaning, purpose, and personal responsibility. It can help people who feel stuck after a life change or who are rethinking what matters to them. Barbara brings these ideas into practical conversation rather than abstract theory.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. That collaborative process can include mixing techniques so sessions match what feels useful in the moment.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current online options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten check-ins on a work break, avoid travel time, or choose sessions that do not require being on camera. These practical benefits help therapy fit into everyday life without promising a particular outcome.