WHO I WORK WITH | Jimmy Barker Psych 1

Individual Therapy

Here, you’ll be met, not measured. Welcomed, not managed. Heard, not handled.

You might be navigating grief, identity, trauma, disconnection, or the unnamable. This is therapy that honors the complexity of your inner world.

I work especially well with:

A highly sensitive or gifted person overwhelmed by life’s noise
A creative or neurodivergent mind caught between brilliance and burnout
Someone seeking to make sense of old wounds or present disconnection
An “odd duck” who’s tired of trying to fit someone else’s mold
People caught in anxious loops, depressive fogs, or existential drift
Women who seek a corrective emotional experience with a safe man
Men who want to explore what masculinity means for them

I bring a conscious awareness to the gaps between my identity and yours, meeting you not as a category, but as a living, layered person. I work to be affirming to the spectrum of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and age.

Couples Therapy

“We keep having the same fight”

What if the problem isn’t communication? Instead, it's about the longing underneath--to feel seen, to feel safe, to stay close without fear.

Often, the part of us that lashes out or pulls away is the part that learned it wasn’t safe to stay close. In couples work, I don’t take sides. I help you slow down, see the cycle, and forge connection.

Together, we’ll work to:

Understand the emotional cycle driving your conflict
Trade reactivity for vulnerability
Rebuild safety, trust, and closeness
Spark intimacy and sexuality
Repair old hurts, and rekindle intimacy
Learn how to reach for each other again—especially when it’s hard

You don’t have to stay stuck in the loop. There is a way through.

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What You Might Be Carrying...

Mood & Emotional Distress

I work with individuals navigating anxiety, depression, grief, and the weight of persistent low mood or suicidal thoughts. Whether it's a quiet sense of unease or a more acute emotional struggle, I support clients in learning to regulate, understand, and soften into their experience.

Relational & Attachment Wounds

Much of my work centers on relationships — the ones we have with others and with ourselves. I help clients untangle patterns of codependency, heal from early attachment injuries, navigate family conflict or divorce, and repair or deepen emotional bonds in partnerships.

Trauma & Abuse

I support people healing from trauma in its many forms — including developmental, complex, racial, emotional, and sexual trauma. My approach integrates somatic awareness and EMDR to help restore a sense of safety, embodiment, and agency.

Identity, Meaning & Exploration

I work with clients who are exploring questions of identity — including gender, sexuality, neurodivergence, and cultural belonging. Many come to therapy seeking not just answers, but a place to feel more whole, authentic, and integrated in who they are becoming.

Family Life

I also support families feeling overwhelmed or stretched thin, as well as people navigating the complexities of blended families and intergenerational dynamics. We explore how to stay present and connected while tending to your own emotional needs.

Substance Use & Coping Strategies

Some clients come in struggling with substance use or compulsive behaviors that once served as coping tools but now feel limiting. Together, we work to understand the root of these patterns and to develop more life-affirming ways of relating to emotion and stress.

What You Might Be Carrying

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Therapy for Artists and Creative Professionals

A place where you don’t have to perform

The creative process can be a battleground between self-expression and self-doubt, inspiration and burnout, freedom and fear.

I know how seductive and brutal it can be to care that much about something no one asked you to make.

I’ve worked in leadership positions within the advertising, entertainment, and music industries and founded my own fashion venture. I understand the invisible pressures. The existential questions. The loneliness of creating something from nothing. The need to share with others what is uniquely ours. I learned what it means to live in complexity, contradiction, and performance. And I learned how costly it is to ignore the quiet call of your own soul.

Therapy for Therapists

You don’t have to be the container. You get to be the one who is held.

As therapists, we hold so much. The pain of others. The questions without answers. The invisible weight of attunement. And often, our own inner world waits quietly in the margins—tended to last, if at all.

Whether you're in the early stages of training, navigating burnout, reckoning with countertransference, or simply needing a space that’s just for you—I offer therapy for therapists that’s not about performance, insight, or being "good at therapy."

It's about being a person again.

Our work might include exploring your emotional landscape, naming the parts of the work that are enlivening or draining, unpacking internalized expectations from our field, or sitting with the deeper questions that brought you to this path in the first place.

There’s no need to curate your experience here. You can show up uncertain, disillusioned, grieving, numb, inspired—all of it is welcome.

Families

Family Therapy

Every family tells a story—one made up of patterns, roles, unspoken rules, and deep emotional currents.

I work with families who are struggling to feel close, to feel heard, to feel like a team. You may find yourself in cycles that repeat: conflict that escalates quickly, distance that lingers, or a child whose struggles seem to carry the weight of something unspoken.

Family therapy here isn’t about placing blame or finding the “problem person.” It’s about helping each member feel safe enough to speak their truth and open enough to hear someone else’s. Together, we’ll explore how each of you has adapted to cope, protect, or survive—and what it might look like to move from protection to connection.

Our work might look like slowing down hard moments so they can be understood, not just survived. Making space for emotions that don’t always get voiced. Or learning new ways to stand in your own truth while still staying in relationship with one another.

Whether you're navigating conflict, parenting challenges, life transitions, or just feeling disconnected, therapy offers a space to begin reshaping the story your family lives inside.

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Group Therapy

Being seen in the presence of others — without performing, fixing, or hiding

I'm currently forming a depth-oriented process group for adults who are curious about how they show up in relationship — to others, and to themselves.

Grounded in interpersonal process, this group is a space where relational dynamics can unfold in real time: the unspoken, the protective, the tender, the habitual.

Together, we explore what it’s like to be with others without the usual masks. What gets stirred in connection? What remains hidden? What longings or fears emerge when we allow ourselves to be truly impacted by another?

This isn’t a skills group or a place to be "fixed." It’s an invitation to bring your whole self — conflicted, unsure, yearning — into the room and notice what happens when it’s met. The group becomes both a mirror and a container for growth, offering the kind of feedback, resonance, and rupture-and-repair that individual therapy can't always reach on its own.

I'm currently interviewing potential members for a group launching later this year. If you're drawn to this kind of work and want to learn more, reach out — I'd be glad to speak with you.

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