Barbara Castro, LCSW
Licensed in New York · 26 years in practice
Barbara Castro is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns.
License and registration
- LCSW, New York
- 072166 · expires December 2028
- NPI
- 1841526811 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 26
- Languages
- English
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About Barbara
Barbara Castro is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She supports those coping with grief, parenting strain, low self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and ADHD. Sessions are held in English and offered to people located in New York.
Her style is warm and direct. She listens first, then helps clients set small, practical goals. Sessions focus on real-life coping strategies that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Barbara uses approaches that focus on the individual’s needs. She draws from client-centered methods to follow the person’s pace and priorities.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are offered for emotion regulation and coping under stress. Over her career she has worked with a wide range of concerns related to family life, fertility and parenting stress, caregiver burdens, chronic illness, and relationship challenges such as infidelity and divorce.
She also addresses issues like abandonment, guilt, codependency, and communication problems. This background informs a practical, lived-experience perspective in sessions. Barbara aims to tailor each plan to what the person needs.
She focuses on building coping skills, improving communication, and restoring a sense of control. The intent is to help people move toward more ease in daily life. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Sessions may use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Barbara lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Barbara names
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Online support
How Barbara’s approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and following their pace. It helps people feel heard and guides sessions toward goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to change patterns that increase depression or anxiety. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and handling crises without making things worse.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Barbara will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try, and she adjusts the plan over time based on what is working.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into a busy life. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and watching nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging work well for brief updates, real-time skills practice, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options let people keep therapy consistent while managing work, caregiving, or health demands.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting issues, grief, self-esteem struggles, bipolar disorder, and ADHD.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is warm and straightforward. She listens, sets practical goals, and teaches skills people can use between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
Barbara has 26 years of professional experience working with a range of life and mental health concerns.
What credentials and location are on file?
She is listed as an LCSW and practices in New York.
Which languages are supported and are international clients accepted?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions offered?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to get started?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
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