About Barbara
Barbara Droy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana with ten years of experience. She speaks directly and simply with people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or big life changes. She also helps with parenting concerns, relationship and family problems, and issues like depression and bipolar mood challenges.
Barbara draws on practical, person-focused methods. She listens first and follows the client's lead while offering gentle guidance when needed.
Background and approach
Early sessions focus on clear, measureable goals by asking what would need to be different for therapy to feel helpful. Her background includes work in intensive outpatient programs and school settings, and experience with adoption-related concerns and post-abortion counseling. She has supported people through trauma, addiction, panic, and workplace or caregiver stress.
Those varied settings have shaped a flexible approach to care. Sessions may use different communication styles to fit a person’s life, and she offers a flexible schedule that tries to respect time commitments. Barbara is also a parent and grandparent and brings that lived experience to conversations about family and caregiving stress when it is helpful.
People can expect straightforward guidance that aims to make day-to-day life more manageable. Barbara emphasizes small, practical steps and checks in on progress so goals remain relevant and realistic.
Practical approaches that translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values-based action, which can help when anxiety or life transitions make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and it is often used for anxiety, panic, and depression. Mindfulness Therapy encourages simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and build calm in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Barbara uses a collaborative process to determine which methods fit a person's goals and preferences. She listens to what matters most, proposes options, and adjusts the plan as progress is tracked together.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, maintain momentum between appointments, and use the style of communication that feels most comfortable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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