Barbara Pettibone, LCSW, CSW

Barbara Pettibone is a Clinical Social Worker (LCSW, CSW) licensed in Colorado with 46 years of experience in mental health counseling. She works with young adults, adults, and seniors, and commonly helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and life changes. She also supports concerns related to relationships, parenting, intimacy, career questions, and LGBT issues.

Barbara has worked in both inpatient psychiatric hospitals and outpatient settings. Much of her practice focuses on seniors and the adjustments that come with aging, including loss, changing relationships, and coping with health challenges. Her long experience includes helping people manage chronic illness, caregiver stress, and the emotional impact of major life transitions.

Her style centers on the client's priorities. She asks people to define the problems and goals they want to address, then aligns methods to those aims. Barbara describes herself as straightforward and caring, and she combines approaches rather than relying on a single method.

Therapeutic tools she commonly draws on include attachment-focused work, client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior methods, and emotionally-focused interventions. She may also use grief work, mindfulness, insight-oriented talk, and practical behavioral steps depending on need.

Sessions emphasize collaboration and clear goals. Barbara frames therapy as a hired relationship where the person seeking help sets the direction and she provides guidance, skills, and support as needed. People considering a first meeting are asked to use the site's matching and scheduling process to arrange an initial session.

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