About Barry
Barry Wasser meets people where they are and helps them find practical steps forward. He is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - based in New Jersey with eight years of experience. He talks plainly about everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, grief, stress, and relationship strain.
Barry uses clear, goal-focused work in sessions. He listens first and then suggests tools people can try between meetings. He often draws from approaches that teach emotion skills, build healthier patterns, and help people act on values that matter to them.
Background and approach
His work has included time in a mental health homeless shelter and a transitional residence for adults with mental illness. He also has experience running group sessions and providing mental health case management. Those roles shaped how he thinks about practical supports around therapy, not just the conversations in the room.
He pays attention to life context - work, family, and the stresses that come with transitions and caregiving. He helps people handle things like parenting strain, sleep trouble, anger, and career stress alongside mood and trauma concerns. He also addresses topics such as addiction, intimacy problems, and challenges tied to aging.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and collaborative. Barry focuses on building a respectful working relationship and on simple, repeatable skills that make daily life easier. He offers services in English and works with international clients as well.
Approaches that translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward them while learning to accept difficult feelings. It is helpful for anxiety, depression, and people facing life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, mood problems, sleep issues, and anger.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on goals and what feels useful. That collaborative process can be adjusted as needs change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows for face-to-face conversation when bandwidth and surroundings allow. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when fewer technical demands are needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, ongoing skill practice, and people who prefer to write rather than speak. These options help people keep therapy going around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, New York
- Languages
- English