Barnetta Young

Barnetta Young is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience helping people navigate major life challenges. She focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship strain, grief, and coping with life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people find practical ways to feel steadier day to day.

In sessions she listens first and follows the client’s lead. She uses client-centered methods to understand each person’s values and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used when helpful to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. Solution-focused work supports short-term goals and concrete next steps.

Her background includes long experience working with people facing multicultural concerns, social isolation, workplace stress, and family conflict. She also has a focus on trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, and substance use concerns. The practice pays attention to how identity and life context shape a person’s options and strengths.

Sessions emphasize practical skills, clearer communication, and building routines that support better sleep, mood, and coping. Barnetta helps people address specific problems like parenting strain, anger, codependency, and midlife transitions while also looking at longer-term emotional patterns.

She works with adults who want to make changes in their daily lives and relationships. Barnetta holds an LPC credential and practices in Georgia, offering support in English for those seeking steady, respectful guidance through change.

How her approaches guide online sessions

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening to what matters most to the person. It focuses on the client’s perspective and builds on the individual’s strengths to make changes that feel meaningful. This approach helps with identity concerns, decision making, and emotional support.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, combines looking at thoughts and behaviors. It helps people notice patterns that increase anxiety or low mood and then try small experiments to change them. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and mood regulation.

Solution-Focused Therapy is brief and goal-oriented. It helps people set small, concrete goals and identify steps they can take right away. This approach is helpful when someone wants quick practical changes for problems like communication, routines, or coping during transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Treatment can combine styles and shift over time as goals change, with the client involved in those decisions.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when helpful. It also permits using worksheets and exercises between meetings to support steady progress.