Joshua Barlow, LPC

Joshua Barlow is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) in Colorado with four years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, LGBT concerns, trauma and abuse, eating issues, and depression. Joshua uses practical coping skills to help people manage hard feelings and difficult situations.

She favors straightforward, skills-based work grounded in an understanding of how emotions and the brain interact. Sessions aim to build concrete tools for daily life, such as emotion regulation and grounding techniques. Joshua blends evidence-based approaches with discussions about identity and power when those topics matter.

Her background includes work as a clinical director at a residential treatment center for eating disorders. That role shaped her emphasis on usable coping strategies and careful attention to safety around topics like self-harm or suicidal thoughts. She draws from multiple therapeutic ideas to address complex problems.

Joshua describes her approach as trauma-focused and humanistic, while also using techniques from CBT, DBT, CPT, mindfulness, somatic therapy, and feminist therapy. In practice this looks like setting clear goals, practicing skills in session, and trying small experiments between sessions.

She also helps people talk about attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, chronic pain and illness, codependency, dissociation, and related issues. The work tends to be direct and collaborative, with an emphasis on what can be practiced outside sessions to make daily life feel more manageable.

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