About Barry
Barry Wasser is a licensed clinical social worker who helps adults navigate stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, and other life challenges. He brings eight years of clinical experience and focuses on creating a calm, respectful space where people can talk frankly about what’s getting in the way of daily life.
Barry uses plain language and practical tools in sessions so clients can try strategies between appointments. He listens for patterns in relationships, mood, and behavior, then works with each person to set clear, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize small, steady changes that build toward better functioning and wellbeing. His background includes work in a mental health homeless shelter and a transitional residence for adults with mental illness. He has led group therapy and provided mental health case management, which shaped his interest in coordinated care and everyday problem solving.
Barry completed a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Yeshiva University and a Master of Social Work at Touro College Graduate School of Social Work. He holds LCSW licenses in New York and New Jersey. In practice he blends several approaches to match the person in front of him.
He values curiosity, direct feedback, and teamwork in therapy. That means sessions are collaborative, focused, and tuned to the practical needs people bring into the room.
How key approaches are used in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and make room for values-driven action. In practice this looks like learning to name difficult thoughts and then choosing small steps that match what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete exercises to change unhelpful patterns, such as breaking routines that worsen anxiety or testing beliefs that feed low mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Barry collaborates with each person to decide which tools to try first based on current problems and goals. He will adjust methods over time, mixing techniques from different approaches when that better fits a person’s needs.
Online sessions offer flexibility for different schedules and preferences. Video calls let therapists read facial cues and work more directly on communication and emotion, while phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing, want ongoing brief support, or need to fit therapy into busy days. These options make it easier to keep steady progress without long travel times.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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