Astra Barkley, LPC, LCMHC

Astra Barkley brings a long history of service working with children, adults, and families across nonprofit agencies, schools, state organizations, and private practice. Over two decades she has supported foster and adoptive families, assisted children with special needs, and worked to connect marginalized community members with needed services. Her private-sector mental health work spans more than eight years and includes counseling for depression, attention deficit disorders, anxiety, adjustment concerns, and stress-related issues.

Astra also contributes to higher education as an adjunct instructor at Troy University, where she teaches undergraduate psychology courses, and as a graduate teaching assistant at Auburn University while pursuing a doctoral degree in counselor education and supervision. She is a foster and adoptive parent and advocates for both foster families and children, offering training and guidance drawn from lived experience.

She is trained in Trauma Informed Partnering of Safety and Permanence - a model approach to partnerships in parenting - and delivers that training to interested foster and adoptive caregivers. Astra uses an integrative approach to counseling, tailoring each client’s treatment plan to their unique needs. She holds LPC and LCMHC credentials - Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - which reflect her clinical training and licensure to provide therapeutic services.