In addition to her teaching position in graduate psychology at CLU, Dr. Barnes is an assistant professor at Los Angeles Pierce College and Los Angeles Valley College where she teaches child development and marriage and family studies. She is a fellow of the American Psychotherapy Association and a clinical member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. She co-authored The journey to parenthood: Myths, reality and what really matters, published by Radcliffe Publishing in Oxford. In 2009, Dr. Barnes received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eli Lilly Foundation for her outstanding contributions to the field of mood-related disorders.