Barbara Muller-Ackerman, LPC

Barbara Muller-Ackerman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with 28 years of experience. She brings a warm, interactive style to her work and emphasizes a holistic view of wellbeing, exploring multiple areas of a person’s life to identify which concerns to address first while acknowledging how issues often overlap and influence one another.

She has extensive experience supporting people of all ages who experience attention challenges, including ADHD and related executive function difficulties. These concerns frequently appear alongside depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, and sleep disturbances, and they can affect relationships and job performance. Barbara approaches this complexity by identifying practical entry points for change and working collaboratively to make meaningful progress.

Barbara also works with women navigating transitions and life milestones, helping them move through passages that come with change and aging. In addition to her LPC credential, she is a certified Life, Mindfulness and Wellness coach. That coaching background informs a collaborative process focused on clarifying goals, building practical strategies, and drawing on a person’s existing strengths to create new possibilities for growth.

Her work integrates client-centered principles with evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mindfulness-based approaches, solution-focused techniques, and somatic work. She offers support across a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, parenting, self-esteem, depression, relationships and family issues, grief, sleep problems, anger, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and caregiver stress. Barbara conducts therapy in English and brings years of clinical experience to each person she works with.