Barbara Pettibone, LCSW, CSW
Colorado · 46 years in practice
Barbara Pettibone is a Colorado clinical social worker with deep experience helping adults navigate big life shifts.
License and registration
- LCSW, Colorado
- CSW.00001879 · expires August 2027
- NPI
- 1275136947 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 46
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Barbara
Barbara Pettibone is a Colorado clinical social worker with deep experience helping adults navigate big life shifts. She brings a steady, practical style and treats the person in front of her with warmth and respect. Barbara believes the client sets the pace and goals for therapy and she works alongside them to find workable steps forward.
She has worked in inpatient psychiatric hospitals and outpatient settings across a long career of 46 years.
Background and approach
That background gives her a wide view of how stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and health changes affect daily life. Barbara often supports people facing aging-related concerns, relationship changes, and the losses that come with later life. Her approach is flexible and down-to-earth.
Sessions may include talk therapy, mindfulness, grief work, behavioral strategies, and problem-solving based on what the person needs at the time. She favors clear, honest conversation and practical tools that can be used between sessions. Barbara commonly helps with mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes.
She also addresses intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, caregiver strain, body image, and workplace or career concerns. She holds the credential Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, and the notation CSW. Barbara offers sessions in English and is available to international clients.
Her style is collaborative: she and the client define goals and choose methods that fit that person's life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Barbara lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Barbara names
- Existential Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Existential therapy helps people face big life questions and find personal meaning during change or loss. It encourages honest reflection about choices, responsibility, and values, which can help with grief, depression, and major life transitions.Attachment-based therapy looks at patterns of connection and trust that shape relationships. It can be helpful for intimacy issues, attachment concerns, and communication problems by focusing on how someone relates to others and learns new ways of connecting.
Client-centered therapy centers the person's experience and priorities. The therapist follows the client's lead, offers empathic listening, and helps people clarify goals and make decisions that fit their life.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Barbara will discuss goals, preferences, and the problems you bring, then recommend methods to try. She works together with clients to adjust techniques over time so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing prompts or brief coaching between meetings. These options allow flexible scheduling and multiple ways to stay connected with a therapist.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Barbara address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, depression, and coping with life changes. Additional work includes relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and caregiver stress, body image, and career concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and client-led. She uses a mix of talk therapy, mindfulness, grief work, behavioral strategies, and insight when those approaches fit the person's goals.
What is her professional background?
She has 46 years of experience and has worked in both inpatient psychiatric hospitals and outpatient settings. Much of her experience involves supporting adults and seniors through health and life transitions.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
She holds the credential Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, and the designation CSW. She is based in Colorado.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. She does accept international clients.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Barbara?
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