Barbara Brown, LCSW

Barbara Brown is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in California with 35 years of practice. She works with adults on issues such as stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and family concerns, anger, addictions, and coping with life changes. She also supports people facing career shifts, caregiver stress, and mood disorders.

Barbara draws on straightforward, practical methods in sessions. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen and reflect what matters most to each person. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that feed anger or anxiety.

Mindfulness techniques are part of her work when slowing down strong emotions helps. She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who are trying to change habits related to addiction or difficult patterns. Solution-Focused Therapy helps set short-term, achievable goals when timely fixes are needed.

Her background spans outpatient clinics, private practice, retirement homes, and criminal justice settings. That range informs how she steers practical strategies for different life stages and stressors. Over the years she has worked with individuals, groups, couples, and families and often includes brief handouts and readings to reinforce skills between sessions.

Sessions aim to build a toolkit clients can use after therapy ends. Barbara emphasizes working together to decide which approaches fit the current problem and the person’s day-to-day life. She accepts international clients and conducts work in English.

How her approaches translate to remote sessions