She developed her own form of Gestalt therapy body work, based on the awareness of body processes. Foreign the human potential movement of the 1970s, she became a kind of "star", but she always refused to accept that role. She worked — among others — with the psychotherapists Fritz Perls and Carl Rogers.
Stevens was a self-described "High School drop-out, 1918, because what she wanted to know, she couldn"t learn in school."
Fritz Perls described Barry Stevens as "a natural born therapist.".