About me
Astra Barkley has 20 years of experience with children, adults, and families in nonprofit sector, school setting, state agencies, and private practice. Her career spans from foster and adoptive case work, working with children with special needs, and marginalized populations in community setting to obtain needed services. She have provided mental health counseling in private sector for more than 8 years, providing counseling for depression, attention deficit disorders, anxiety, adjustment disorders, stress related issues, and more. In addition, Astra is employed at Troy University where she is an adjunct instructor and teaches bachelor level psychology classes. She is also a graduate teaching assistant at Auburn University where she is currently enrolled in counselor education and supervision doctoral program. She is a foster and adoptive parent, in addition to an advocate for foster and adoptive parents and foster children. She is trained in Trauma Informed Partnering of Safety and Permanence-Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting and provides this training to interested foster and adoptive parents. She utilizes an integrative approach to counseling, this allows her to individualize each clients treatment plan.
Specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- ADHD
Addictions , LGBT , Relationship issues , Family conflicts , Trauma and abuse , Grief , Bipolar disorder , Coping with life changes
Clinical approaches:
Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy
Years of Experience: 10
Services offered
Messaging
Live Chat
Phone
Video
Licensing
AL LPC 3437
Reviews
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Astra has good experience with ADHD
As always, she is great.
Astra is very patient. She also work around us and what we need. She listened to us and have a grasp of what is going on very quickly. She takes no bullshit. Go straight to the point and is very honest which we really appreciate.
Astra is great at making me feel listened to and accepted. She is straight to the point and offers great guidance. Happy to have found her.