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COUPLE’S THERAPY

Cultivating Healthy Intimacy

As a recognition of differing epistemologies is essential between counselor and client, it is even more important between intimate partners. One of the central causes of interpersonal conflict is when two people are “speaking different languages” but do not know it.

We tend to assume that others perceive and judge the world as we do and often run into problems when we assume that our reality is everyone’s reality. The majority of interpersonal work involves helping people recognize this, reshaping the mental landscape of relating, and reshaping communication.

It is a process crucial to healthy relationships at every level—intimate, familial, societal, and political.

Our choice of partner is often not a coincidence. Their unique array of a partner’s traits often fit like a puzzle piece with our own characteristics– sometimes in good ways and sometimes in volatile ways.

“When a dyad is healthy, these differences are complementary and create a unifying tension that cultivates intimacy.”

When there is unresolved anger and resentment, these differences continually polarize. Because our partners tend to activate our core ways of relating to close others, we tend to project our trauma, unresolved wounds, and fears onto them which corrupts intimacy in a partnership. Much of the work that happens in couple’s therapy involves re-owning these projections and clearing space to perceive our partner without the haze of illusion that projections create. In this way, real intimacy can grow. Read about getting started.

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EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is one of the industry’s leading treatment for trauma of any severity. Whether a client needs to heal from an acute traumatic event such as a car accident or natural disaster, or trying to work through painful childhood experiences that lead to debilitating negative self-beliefs (“I’m a failure” or “I’m not enough”), EMDR is one of the most effective approaches for accessing and rewiring parts of the brain that talk therapy cannot reach. EMDR involves the use of bilateral stimulation via visual or auditory stimulation in order to reprocess traumatic experiences and reintegrate healthier beliefs about self, others, and the world. Frog Point Therapists are trained in a variety of trauma treatmenta including EMDR and have had the privilege of successfully treating many clients who sought to make sense of adverse life experiences.

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FAMILY THERAPY

We all know from first-hand experience that well into adulthood, family dynamics can be complex and difficult to manage. As people get older, patterns become more crystallized and the ways we interact are more habituated. Families have adaptive and maladaptive ways of relating to one another, and the maladaptive patterns often come to a head during times of elevated stress or change. Whether your family is dealing with the loss of an older parent, in a period of transition, or in the process of accommodating new members as the system grows and blends with other families, a family therapist can act as an expert mediator and create opportunities for family members to discover, untangle, and change old patterns. Despite itself, a family, like any other organism, must also evolve in its own unique way and therapy often facilitates what can sometimes become a painful process.

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THERAPY FOR THERAPISTS

There are so many reasons to be in your own treatment as a mental health professional.

However, treating a mental health professional in their own therapy requires a specialized skill set. As therapists, our professional work is closely woven into the fabric of our being. We are not blank slates. In the most basic sense, we are in a relationship with each of our clients and those relationships move and shape us as they do our clients. Each experience illuminates different facets of our personhood and so we necessarily have to attend to our own being to do our work well. It takes a therapist who can expertly manage the boundaries between counselor, mentor, supervisor, and peer to curate a growth experience for a mental health professional in individual therapy.

Having spent equal amounts of time as a practitioner, professor, and clinical supervisor, Dr. Barimany offers this service to mental health workers who seek their own care and growth.

See our client testimonials to hear from mental health therapists who have worked with Dr. Barimany. Read about getting started.

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INDIVIDUAL THERAPY

Healthy Adult Development

Our client is someone who is ready to “roll their sleeves up and get to work.” While therapy does not need to be more painful than necessary, much of the work we do entails stewarding people into spaces of their mind they have never been, are too afraid to venture into, or consciously and unconsciously avoid entering—often an uncomfortable experience.

Growing your mind up is hard. Change is hard. It is that first jump off the high dive that often feels the most terrifying. We specialize in coaching our clients through their next major upshift in development.

If you feel stuck like you know things are not working and do not know why, or you know what’s happening but do not know what to do differently, or you feel lost and want to see things clearly, you are our ideal client. Read about getting started.

Millennials and Generation Z

Never before seen levels of anxiety and depression are one hallmark of a generation that has had to adapt to rapid changes while the traditional structures that undergird normal life fall apart. An overabundance of choice; the pressure to “find your calling” and “change the world”; fear of missing out, crippling self-doubt, impossible portrayals of what life “should” look like in media, attitudes of disposable everything and transactional relationships have resulted in a perpetual state of paralysis and meandering through life that leaves so many chronically unhappy and lost. Attitudes that worked in older generations do not fit with the rapidly changing landscape of the global and national psyche. These are unprecedented times that call for specialized support.

Millennials and Generation Z have the difficult task of growing out of old ways of being that have been inherited from previous generations. As they begin to open their eyes, they choose not to participate in those antiquated institutions and feel a sense of disorientation as almost all the categories from which people have historically derived a sense of identity quickly evaporate.

Emerging adults are searching for answers to new questions in old spaces and coming up short. Technology and social media have resulted in the atrophy of people’s ability to be present, to connect, and to establish meaningful relationships. Emerging adults are surrounded by people but feel lonelier than any ever, causing unprecedented levels of generation-wide mental health disorder. As the bones of life as we know it continue to be rattled, we need wise voices to coach us through this period of upheaval and help us transform—not obliterate—the cultural, social, and intrapsychic infrastructure we have.

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