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Frog Point Therapy

Adult development

Frog Point Therapy offers a range of counseling, therapy, psychotherapy services for groups, individuals, and couples.

The Frog Point Therapy approach is an integral practice that blends traditional western psychotherapy, eastern wisdom practices, and contemporary research on human development to curate a highly individualized, powerful therapeutic experience aimed at cultivating and catalyzing upshifts in adult development.  We specialize in taking our client from “good” to “great.”  We believe that every human being intrinsically has everything they need to build a happy life. As therapists, our focus is on harnessing and transforming; on seeing each client’s unique presentation, toning natural dispositions, re-balancing one-sidedness, and making space for new abilities to come online.  It is a truly incredible process to watch someone become a fuller self and we consider it a privilege to be a part of this process with each of our clients.

Frog Point Therapy offers a variety of approaches in service of fostering well-being and maximizing human potential. The FPT approach integrates traditional western psychotherapy, eastern wisdom practice, and modern research on human development and delivers this technical approach within a deeply human experience. Our therapists are dedicated to the highest caliber of professionalism and to pushing industry standards in the field further. Each modality–individual therapy, couples, therapy, consultations, and even clinical supervision– is aimed to cultivate and catalyze development in the unique forms it must take for every individual client.

Frog Point Therapy

EMDR

Frog Point Therapy offers a range of counseling, therapy, psychotherapy services for groups, individuals, and couples.

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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adult adhd

Frog Point Therapy offers a range of counseling, therapy, psychotherapy services for groups, individuals, and couples.

Many of our clients come into therapy struggling with feelings of inadequacy. Adults are expected to be able to organize schedules, keep track of tasks, break tasks down, generate a plan of action, and follow through sequentially to completion. Neurotypical folks generally have little trouble using their executive functioning to accomplish these things. But when ones struggles to do any one of these tasks, it is often internalized as a character deficiency of weakness or failure. These feelings and consequent beliefs are often the result of undiagnosed ADHD or other conditions that affect executive function. 

Frog Point Therapists work with our clients to both accept the diagnosis of ADHD, understand how it has impacted their identity, and learn practical skills to manage their symptoms. We use empirically supported treatments to help our clients gain skills with organization, planning, decision-making, and manage variance in their motivation levels. Our goals are to help clients learn to change their inner monologue around their cognitive process and identity and work with—not against—their cognitive tendencies. 

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couple’s therapy

Frog Point Therapy offers a range of counseling, therapy, psychotherapy services for groups, individuals, and couples.

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 reorganizing communication patterns. It is a process crucial to healthy relationships at every level—romantic, parental, familial, societal, and political. Our choice of partner is often not a coincidence. The 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 there is unresolved anger and resentment, these differences continually polarize. Because our partners tend to activate our core ways of relating to close others—for better or for worse—we tend to project our trauma, unresolved wounds, and fears onto them which corrupts intimacy in a partnership. In therapy, couples work on recognizing and accepting these asymmetries in both development and personality as necessary for desire and intimacy, and learn how to coexist and thrive in a healthy, dynamic equilibrium with one another. 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.

Frog Point Therapy

therapy for therapists

Frog Point Therapy offers a range of counseling, therapy, psychotherapy services for groups, individuals, and couples.

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.

Frog Point Therapy

one-time consultations

Frog Point Therapy offers a range of counseling, therapy, psychotherapy services for groups, individuals, and couples.