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Larry Barber

Larry Barber

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Oct 2, 2025

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Marriage, couples, and individual counseling have been the focus during the 15 years Larry has worked as a Licensed Professional Counselor. He is convinced that through counseling, especially Christian counseling, marriages, relationships, and lives can experience healing, transformation, and fulfillment. Larry is a certified facilitator in Prepare-Enrich, providing marital and premarital counseling utilizing that program.


Larry works with those suffering traumatic and life-changing events. He specializes in counseling for trauma, grief and loss, divorce, anger issues, anxiety, depression, chronic illness, and end-of-life issues. In addition, Larry has worked with men’s issues including pornography and sexual addiction.


Larry received his master’s degree in Counseling from Amberton University. Prior to that, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Oral Communications from Baylor University and a master’s degree in Biblical Studies from Abilene Christian University. He is certified in Thanatology (the study of Death, Dying and Bereavement) through the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC). He has also received certification in Death and Grief Studies through the Center For Loss and Life Transition at Colorado State University. He is the author of the grief survival guide Love Never Dies: Embracing Grief With Hope and Promise.


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Taylor Counseling Group

Posts (12)

May 20, 20203 min
10 Ways to Cope with Loneliness
Know that Loneliness is a State of Mind, Not a Life Sentence Loneliness is depression resulting from an inability to cope with the fact of life that this side of heaven every one of us has times when our yearnings to be heard and understood and appreciated by another human are not met. Realizing the loneliness is normal and accepting the fact that you can’t feel love and fulfilled all the time, can make periods of loneliness more tolerable. Learn How to Like Yourself It is usual for people...

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May 5, 20203 min
Grieving Your Mother on Mother's Day
It would soon be Mother’s Day again, and I was dreading it. I wasn’t dreading the day for myself, but for my children who had lost their mother Cindy and two-year-old sister Katie after a traffic accident. Every Mother’s Day after my wife’s death had been shear torture for my family as in church services the congregation took out time from worship to honor the mothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers attending the service. I didn’t begrudge the families that special time honoring their...

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Jan 29, 20203 min
Victory Verses to Process Your Grief
All of us have our weak moments in life–those moments when we doubt ourselves, our ability and our resources available to help us face up to the challenges of simply going forward in life. Therefore, it is very understandable how we mourners confronted with the overwhelming, all-consuming, energy-draining experience of grief can begin to doubt our abilities to proceed any further without the physical presence of our loved one who has died. I remember a young father whose teenage son had died...

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Oct 22, 20193 min
How to Understand Someone Who is Grieving
At many points after a loss, the mourning person can benefit from the support of others. Individual grief reactions can vary widely from person to person and also within the same person over time. Accordingly, friends need to be ready to accept and support the griever through a wide range of emotions. Reactions to Loss Mourning people will experience many reactions to their loss as they deal with grief: At various times, but especially at first, the mourning person may experience intense and...

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Aug 19, 20192 min
How Do You Know Your Grieving is Over?
Grief is never truly finished. When a loved one dies, we will always miss the relationship we had with that person. Sometimes we will re-experience the pain of that loss as we go through annual celebrations such as birthdays, holidays and anniversaries. Nonetheless, we are called back into the land of the living and our daily responsibilities. Reinvesting in life and significant relationships is the key to getting through our grief. Realizing life is forever changed by the death of a loved...

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Oct 31, 20185 min
Talking with Your Child about Violence, War and the News
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” Matthew 5:4 NIV Do you know how to comfort and reassure your children? When tragedy, disease and death strike as they have in recent news headlines, we adults often feel the need to protect our children, but that is impossible. With the age of technology and instant communications around the world through television, internet and social media, children can be witness to tragic and horrifying life events. As adult role models and...

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Dec 19, 20163 min
Grief, Children, You and the Holidays
A young mother whose son was killed in a fire started by outdoor Christmas lights expressed her fear of the upcoming first Christmas following his death. She did not have the energy to carry on as usual, and she was getting messages from the family that they expected her to do just that. Through grief support, she was able to adapt her holidays to fit her and her surviving child’s needs. She needed permission to change the routine because she felt the old routine would be too painful. She...

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Jun 20, 20164 min
How to Know If You're Still Grieving: Help and Hope
A journey through grief is complex and confusing. One way to gauge how well you are dealing with the loss, your grief and your grief emotions is to take an inventory of all the emotions and experiences that are a part of your grief journey. Below is a whole list of things you might think or feel (or have thought or felt) when someone has died. Read through the list as quickly as you can and check the thoughts and feelings that come close to describing the same thoughts and feelings you have...

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May 30, 20164 min
Experiencing Loss? Take a Grief Inventory
When you go through grief, you go through a lot of complex, confusing emotions. One way to gauge how well you are dealing with the loss, your grief and your grief emotions is to take an inventory of all the emotions and experiences that are a part of your grief journey. Below is a whole list of things you might think or feel (or have thought or felt) when someone has died. Read through the list as quickly as you can and check the thoughts and feelings that come close to describing the same...

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