About Barbara
Barbara "Barb" Drotos is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with fifteen years of clinical experience based in New Hampshire. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma related concerns. Barb also supports people navigating questions about sexual orientation and gender identity and those coping with long-term illness or developmental differences.
Barb uses a calm, person-focused style in sessions. She builds a warm space where clients can talk through thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and straightforward, aimed at immediate coping and longer-term change. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thinking and to test new ways of responding.
Mindfulness techniques and motivational interviewing are woven in to strengthen coping and support commitment to goals. Barb has helped people with a wide range of life challenges including abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, cancer-related concerns, and end-of-life planning. She also brings experience supporting those affected by hearing impairment, intellectual disability, and autism spectrum differences.
People who choose Barb often want a clear, steady therapist who listens and helps them make small, useful changes. She works together with each person to set goals and choose approaches that fit their life and pace.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice and change ways of relating. This approach can be useful for anxiety rooted in relationship worries and for addressing attachment issues that affect daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve functioning. It often includes homework and clear exercises that fit well into online sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods based on their goals, needs, and what feels comfortable. That may mean blending attachment ideas with CBT and mindfulness techniques over time, adjusting the plan as progress happens.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and a fuller conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging allow short check-ins or written reflections between sessions. These options help therapy fit into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while keeping the focus on practical coping and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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