About Barry
Barry Winley is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 15 years of clinical experience. He brings a practical, down-to-earth approach to therapy and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship struggles. He speaks English and works with a wide range of concerns drawn from a long career in community and institutional settings.
Before independent practice, he spent years working in criminal justice settings, evaluating people affected by incarceration and trauma.
Background and approach
That background shaped his interest in trauma, PTSD, and the effects of social stigma on recovery. He has also supported veterans, law enforcement, teachers, and students through anxiety and mood challenges. Barry uses several therapeutic methods to meet different needs.
He often blends attachment-focused thinking, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused work, Jungian ideas, and mindfulness practices. Sessions tend to be practical and skills-focused, with attention to patterns in relationships and daily routines. He developed a personal framework called the 7 Pillars of Health to help people track wellbeing and build self-regulation skills.
That framework is used alongside other approaches to address sleep, eating, substance use, and coping with life transitions. Therapy with him can include problem-solving, guided reflection, and short-term skill building as well as deeper work on attachment and meaning. He also incorporates discussion of spirituality when clients want that to be part of the process.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past connections shape current relationships and feelings. Online sessions use discussion and guided exercises to notice patterns and try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In remote sessions this often means setting small practice steps between meetings and reviewing progress together. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and grounding skills to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and focus, which can help with anxiety, stress, and ADHD symptoms.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then recommend a mix of methods. That plan can change over time based on what helps most, with the client involved in deciding next steps.
Online therapy makes these methods easier to fit into life. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different places. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, scheduling flexibility, and ongoing support between sessions. These options help people stay consistent with therapy while balancing work, school, or family demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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