Barbara Droy, LPC

Barbara Droy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with ten years of experience. She talks plainly with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, or changes in life. She draws on straightforward techniques and listens first to find what matters most to each person.

Barbara has worked in many settings, including intensive outpatient programs and schools. She has supported people facing mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder, individuals dealing with addiction and recovery, and those processing trauma and abuse. She has also provided adoption counseling and helped with parenting and family-of-origin concerns.

Her style blends a client-centered attitude with practical strategies. She asks early on what would show that therapy is helping and then helps set clear, achievable goals. Sessions focus on small, useful changes you can try between meetings.

Barbara understands the strain caregivers and parents can face, including money or workplace stress. She offers approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and acceptance-based ideas to address thinking patterns and manage emotions. She will adapt methods to each person rather than use one fixed plan.

Appointments can be scheduled around your life and the communication method that fits you. She values your time and aims to use sessions efficiently. If a different time might work, she invites people to ask so she can try to accommodate them.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Barbara commonly uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try concrete changes in behavior to reduce anxiety or depression. CBT techniques are practical and often include small experiments or skill practice between sessions.

She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying personal values and taking steps that match those values even when difficult feelings are present. Client-centered methods mean the therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead while offering gentle guidance.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before to choose methods that fit. That planning is collaborative so clients feel involved in how sessions proceed.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video allows for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These options provide flexibility while keeping the focus on practical progress.