Barbara Pettibone , LCSW, CSW

Barbara Pettibone is a Colorado-based clinical social worker with 46 years of experience supporting young adults, adults, and seniors through a wide range of life challenges. She is licensed as an LCSW and holds a CSW - LCSW stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker and CSW indicates her clinical social work credential - reflecting decades of practice in both inpatient psychiatric hospitals and outpatient settings.

Her practice places special emphasis on the needs of older adults, addressing transitions that come with aging such as loss, changing relationships, and coping with health concerns. She also works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, relationship and family issues, parenting concerns, self-esteem, career matters, bipolar disorder, and a range of intimacy and communication difficulties. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, blended family dynamics, and challenges related to body image and control issues.

Barbara approaches therapy with warmth, honesty, and a straightforward style, believing that the client directs the work and that the therapist’s role is to support and guide change. Her methods are pragmatic and flexible - drawing on insight-oriented work, mindfulness, behavioral techniques, grief-focused interventions, and other approaches as needed. She aims to collaborate with each person to define goals and find practical ways forward on their journey to better functioning and well-being.