Dr. Barbara Wasowska, MD, LCPC

Dr. Barbara Wasowska helps people who are worried about relationships, trauma, anxiety, or low self-esteem. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that people can try right away. Dr. Wasowska holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and she brings 14 years of experience to her work.

She listens with respect and sensitivity, and she adapts sessions to each person's situation. Conversations are goal-focused and collaborative, with attention to emotional safety and realistic next steps. She often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills.

Her practice also includes ideas from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy. These approaches are used to help people manage difficult feelings, clarify values, and strengthen relationships with themselves and others. Sessions include skills practice, reflection, and planning for change.

Dr. Wasowska works with a wide range of concerns including depression, grief, panic, stress, and compassion fatigue. She also supports clients facing life changes, career questions, and issues related to aging or multicultural stressors. Her work addresses both immediate symptoms and longer-term patterns.

People who choose her can expect straightforward feedback and an emphasis on usable tools. The goal is steady progress you can notice between sessions. She aims to make therapy understandable and relevant to everyday life.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Dr. Wasowska commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in her online practice. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, panic, and low mood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes noticing difficult feelings, clarifying personal values, and taking committed action toward a meaningful life.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then shape sessions together. That way the tools match the issue and the person's daily life rather than fitting a fixed formula.

Online therapy can be convenient and flexible. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or medical appointments while still using the same therapeutic approaches described above.