About Barbara
Barbara "Barb" Drotos is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New Hampshire. She draws on 15 years as an LCSW to guide people through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and concerns related to sexual orientation and gender identity. Barb keeps things simple and direct in sessions so people can start to feel clearer about next steps.
Barb creates an open, nonjudgmental place for people to talk about hard things.
Background and approach
She focuses on listening first and then helping people find practical ways to cope. Sessions often include looking at unhelpful thinking, recognizing emotional patterns, and trying small changes between meetings. She also works with issues tied to adoption and foster care, abandonment, attachment, aging and geriatric concerns, and family of origin struggles.
Barb has experience with developmental disability, autism, brain injury, chronic illness, and caregiving strain. She supports people facing cancer, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and those coping with isolation or hearing impairment. Her approach blends Attachment-Based work, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, and motivational techniques.
Conversations are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. The goal is to help people build skills they can use day to day. Barb practices in New Hampshire and speaks English.
If someone is ready to begin, she asks them to take a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session at a time that fits their life.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Attachment-Based work focuses on relationships and patterns formed early in life, helping people notice how they relate to others and to themselves. This can be useful for grief, attachment issues, and long-standing relational stress. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening without judgment and following the person's pace; it helps people feel heard and clarify what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical strategies to reduce anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit best given a person’s goals, comfort level, and daily routines. Sessions can shift methods over time as needs change and small experiments are tried between meetings.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make regular work possible around busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options let people schedule therapy across work, caregiving, and other obligations while keeping continuity with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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