Michael Barbee

I enjoy working with individuals who are negotiating changes, difficulties, or losses in their lives and trying to understand their experience. I believe it is up to each of us to make sense of our lives, and psychotherapy is often a valuable place to explore this in an open and non-judgmental way. It is often turning points or changing phases of life that call us to question things, confront us with important decisions, and challenge us to decide what is meaningful. Symptoms of depression and anxiety, or events such as illness, trauma and loss can call into question our beliefs, values and goals in life. This creates the opportunity to reorient ourselves and find new perspectives for living more authentically and fully. This orientation to psychotherapy can be called existential or humanistic. I have more than twenty years of experience working with a diverse range of people of many races and cultures, ages and genders, values and backgrounds.