Raquel Barry, LCSW

Raquel Barry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Kentucky with five years of experience delivering trauma-informed, evidence-based care to children, adolescents, adults, and families. Her license as an LCSW - a clinical social work credential for providing psychotherapy - complements a practice built on empathy, cultural humility, and collaborative work to help clients heal, grow, and build resilience.

She has provided services across outpatient settings, community-based programs, and within multidisciplinary teams, supporting people through complex challenges including trauma, grief, emotional regulation concerns, and mental health crises. Raquel is trained in EMDR, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Motivational Interviewing, and Play Therapy, and she integrates these methods to create individualized, client-centered treatment plans.

Raquel works with difficulties such as stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, self-esteem concerns, and coping with life changes, and she also focuses on areas like avoidant personality patterns, codependency, dissociation, gender dysphoria, impulsivity, isolation and loneliness, self-love, sexuality, and social anxiety and phobia. She provides sessions in English and tailors care to each person's background and goals.

Evidence-Based Techniques and Online Care

Raquel uses several evidence-based approaches to support healing and change. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) helps people process distressing memories by pairing focused attention with guided bilateral stimulation; it is often used when past traumatic events continue to cause emotional difficulty. Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) combines age-appropriate talk and skill-building to address trauma symptoms in children, adolescents, and their caregivers, focusing on coping skills and gradual processing of traumatic material. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-oriented style that helps people resolve uncertainty and strengthen motivation for change by exploring values and ambivalence.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. Raquel collaborates with each person to identify which methods align best with their needs, goals, and preferences, and she draws on techniques commonly used by licensed professionals and therapists to tailor care.

Online therapy offers flexible access to treatment through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, allowing sessions to fit around work, family, and daily life. These options can make it easier to maintain regular contact, practice new skills between sessions, and access support from home or other convenient locations.