About B
B Payson Croy is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She welcomes conversations about relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and issues that often affect young adults and LGBTQ clients. Her approach is direct and compassionate, focused on practical steps people can use between sessions.
In sessions she aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly about what feels hard. She listens for patterns rooted in attachment, abandonment, or codependency and helps clients notice how those patterns show up in daily life.
Background and approach
Conversations often cover communication problems, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose and sexuality. B Payson uses techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to build skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. She also brings psychodynamic ideas into sessions to help people understand how past experiences shape current reactions.
Together these approaches support both practical coping and deeper self-understanding. She has three years of professional experience and practices in Massachusetts. Sessions can include short skills practice, checking in on progress, and planning small steps that fit each person’s life.
The aim is steady change, not quick fixes. People who choose her often want a therapist who balances actionable strategies with thoughtful reflection. She works with concerns like mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, communication struggles, and finding direction during life transitions.
How DBT and Psychodynamic Work Online
Dialectical Behavior Therapy focuses on teaching concrete skills like emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication. Online sessions can include short exercises and homework to practice these skills between meetings and strengthen everyday coping.Psychodynamic therapy looks at patterns that repeat across relationships and over time. In remote sessions the therapist listens for recurring themes and helps connect current struggles to past experiences, offering insight that can change how someone responds in daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adapt methods over time. People and goals can change, and the plan can shift to match what’s working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and skill teaching, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support quick check-ins or brief coaching between appointments. These options aim to increase flexibility and consistent access to care.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
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- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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