Therapy with James Barry

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It is an honor to be medicine in the lives of others that initiates healing and transformation. It has been my calling since 8th grade, and a lifelong journey far beyond a career that began in 2010. This work is my passion and hobby as well. I obsess over consciousness expansion, healing, and self-improvement. This path has led me to developing a holistic practice that meets the needs of a wide variety of people and issues. I consider myself a lifelong learner or student of life.  My education continues regularly through my reading, training, and personal experiences with inner work.  I have a section in the dropdown menu titled "reading notes," where you can get some great insight and knowledge from various books I have read.

I specialize in helping adults move through challenging transitions and transformations. Healing from trauma (complex and single incident) is often a core part of this work, resulting in greater resiliency and wholeness. This allows you to get to know the Self on a profoundly deep level, and to be working in harmony with your internal system. The tools are already within. Sometimes, we just need to be shown how to access them. My approach is holistic and individualized to meet your needs, combining experiential therapies with talk therapy and rapport. It is transpersonal and integral. Branching off of Ken Wilber's idea to "Transcend and Include," we open a brave space that welcomes all parts of you to be recognized, understood, and integrated in order to truly transcend.  

I use a mix of modalities and techniques in sessions depending on what we are working on: EMDR, IFS (Parts Work), Brainspotting, Breathwork, Mindfulness, and CBT.  Parts work is my favorite and what I find to be the most versatile and profound.  I have an interest in ego work and shadow work, and also offer a men's group focused on this (View Groups in menu).  The truth is that we are complex and multi-faceted humans, so we need a multi-faceted approach.  A modality that helps you explore your cognitive structures is not necessarily going to help you uncover unconscious structures or somatic ailments.  Therefore, we use different modalities depending on what we are working on. I see many common health diagnoses such as anxiety and depression as more of a "symptom." We can begin with coping skills and modalities to address your symptom, though ideally we want to get to the root of your symptom, which is often a trauma that needs healing. Once we provide such healing, then there may not be a "symptom" to have to manage anymore (or as much).  

You are very capable of becoming the person that you have always wanted to be. You are very capable of healing.  Are you ready to feel how profound it is for mental health treatment to include mind, body, spirit, and shadow?

Experience Working with:

Trauma, Complex Trauma (PTSD, CPTSD)

Psychedelic integration

Anxiety and Fear

Depression

OCD

Personality Disorders (BPD, NPD)

Ego Work

Shadow Work

Personal Narcissism

Dealing with the Narcissism of others

Boundary setting

DID

Psychosis

Schizophrenia

Spirituality

Guilt and Shame

Grief

Self-Esteem Issues

Challenging Relationship Dynamics

Autism

I also have a passion for safe, intentional, spiritual, and therapeutic use of psychedelics as a tool on our healing and enlightenment journey.  I can be a resource for you during your therapy sessions to help integrate such journeys that you may partake in on your own time.  This, along with any preparation conversations fall within the "harm-reduction" model of social work, and is a perfectly valid and okay thing to explore, so I welcome you to feel safe in doing so with me.  I have a section on my website in the drop down menu with some resources for information on this topic.

Clients often come to me who have put in their time with talk therapy and realize there is a wall everyone hits with that eventually. Or perhaps it is their first time in therapy and they know they are ready to jump right into that deep work. They are ready.  Experiential therapy is a completely different style of therapy.  You can talk about your issues for your entire life, feel completely aware of why things are the way that the are, yet still nothing may change.  Experiential therapy is how we create that change, find healing, and transcendence.