When you're ready
for change.
Welcome!
As a licensed psychologist, I assist people by providing cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxious conditions such as Panic Disorder; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Social Anxiety and other Specific Phobias. My greatest satisfaction is in seeing others empowered with the skills and the know-how to achieve life-long change.
Services
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Panic Attacks
While developing skills to manage your symptoms, you will learn how to face your fears and transform your thinking so you can conquer panic.
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Social Anxiety
Learn how to pinpoint, challenge, and replace the thoughts and behaviors fueling your fears. Develop and practice new social skills. Create between-session action steps to solidify treatment gains. Increase your confidence and widen your social world.
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Obessive-Compulsive
Through specific cognitive and behavioral exercises (e.g., ERP), you will learn to reduce the frequency of your symptoms and increase your ability to deal with uncertainty so that you can break the pattern of fear and avoidance.
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Generalized Anxiety
Find out how to manage your symptoms and transform your thinking so you can break free from the worry cycle.
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PTSD
Using a variety of behavioral and cognitive methods, you will process traumatic memories, learn skills to evaluate whether your thoughts are based in fact or if they are unhelpful responses to the trauma, and develop new responses to your symptoms in order to reduce distress and increase overall life satisfaction.
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Habit Change
Learn a set of alternative behaviors to help you re-focus, then interrupt and block unwanted behavior. Develop skills to identify, change, and control the behavioral triggers that occur in your usual environments and daily routines.
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Depression
Build skills for effectively disrupting the processes that fuel your depression. Modify the beliefs and assumptions that predispose you to depression and alter behavior patterns to increase engagement in life's activities.
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Insomnia
Using a combination of first-line treatment modalities, such as stimulus control, sleep consolidation, mindfulness, and habit replacement to reduce sleep-interfering behavior, you will first develop skills to improve the quality of your sleep and then gradually increase the quantity of your sleep.
“Dr. Barrett understood my overall experience and not just my symptoms. She patiently worked on getting a good and accurate sense of the intensity and impact that the traumatic experience had on me, there were no assumptions and, in the end, she didn't "kind of" get it, she "totally" got it.”
— H.L.