Barbara Keeler, LICSW

Barbara A. Keeler, LICSW, is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Newburyport, MA, providing outpatient psychotherapy to men and women over 18 suffering from painful moods, distressing thoughts, unhappy relationships, and self-defeating behavior. Short-term work using insight, cognitive and other mindfulness techniques to explore current stressors, identify reaction patterns and develop better coping strategies.

Longer term psychodynamic psychotherapy drawing on relational and mindfulness approaches as well as attachment theory for a deeper exploration of recurrent problem areas, their roots in the past and more successful ways of responding. Substance abuse treatment, focusing on achieving and maintaining recovery, developing insight into triggers for abuse, and a range of relapse prevention strategies.