Gabrielle Barrington, MD, LCPC

Gabrielle Barrington is a licensed clinician with an MD and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential. She focuses on helping people reduce stress and anxiety and build clearer goals for well-being. She aims to make sessions welcoming and practical for everyday life.

Gabrielle uses clear conversation and concrete steps to help people notice what’s getting in the way. She supports coping with life changes, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues around parenting and family dynamics. She also addresses self-esteem, anger, eating concerns, and career stress.

Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside attachment-informed and client-centered work. That means she helps people spot thinking patterns, understand relational wounds, and follow their own values when making changes. She blends skills practice with space to reflect on emotions and relationships.

Over seven years she has helped people untangle family of origin issues, codependency, boundaries, grief, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. She often focuses on improving communication, managing impulses, and rebuilding self-trust after betrayal or loss.

Sessions are offered to English speakers and Gabrielle accepts international clients while working from Maryland. She encourages people to try a few different ways of working and to use coaching-style goals when helpful. Her style is warm and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on building small, sustainable changes.

How Gabrielle’s approaches translate to online therapy

CBT focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses clear exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It helps with anxiety, depression, stress, and problems like body image or impulsivity by teaching practical skills and steps to try between sessions.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current reactions and closeness. This work helps people understand patterns around abandonment, codependency, and intimacy-related struggles and can improve how they connect with others.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental stance where the person leads the work. This approach supports self-esteem, decision-making, and finding a sense of purpose through the therapist's empathic listening.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Gabrielle will help clients decide which methods make the most sense for their goals and adjust the plan over time. She blends skills practice, reflective conversation, and goal-setting to make progress feel useful and realistic.

Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapy work and skill practice, phone can fit a busy schedule or lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging can support short check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and travel.