Barbara Bernstein, MA, LLC is a private practice psychotherapy service that has been dedicated to improving the mental health and well-being of individuals, couples, and families for over 25 years. Our founder, Barbara Bernstein, is a trusted and experienced therapist who has built a reputation for providing non-judgmental, confidential, and collaborative therapy sessions in a warm and welcoming environment.
Our Services
At Barbara Bernstein, MA, LLC, we offer a range of therapeutic services aimed at helping our clients feel better mentally, empowering them to make choices that they can be proud of, and improving various aspects of their lives.
Individual Therapy
We work with individuals who are interested in taking a closer look at the ways they could live their lives more fully. Our therapeutic approach focuses on the present and future, and we help clients grow in motivation, psychological health, and ego maturity. While we believe that a thorough understanding of the past can be helpful, it is not a necessity for achieving psychological health and moving toward goals. Instead, we use concentrated listening and provide direction and instruction to empower our clients to do things differently and attain improved results. Our therapeutic process integrates concepts from eastern traditions, current research on positivity and the brain, and modalities gathered from a variety of therapy pioneers.
Couples Therapy
Our specialization is working with couples who are motivated to make lasting changes in the way they team up to handle and embrace life. We work to foster new skills that empower relational growth, helping couples to make things better at home by teaching them the skills they were never taught as part of their education. We work with all varieties of couples, including the full spectrum of genders, races, religions, nationalities, and relationship statuses. Our work with couples includes many areas of focus, such as redefining monogamy, negotiating differences around spirituality, getting on the same page with parenting, finding peace from chronic fights, and working through the pain and shame of infidelity.
Parenting Consultations
We enjoy working with clients to improve and increase parenting skills. We believe that all kids' behaviors have an unconscious purpose, and it is part of a parents' challenge to understand this purpose and guide their children accordingly. We empower our clients to use respect as their foundation in shaping their kids' self-concept and behavior. We teach from Adlerian principles such as natural and logical consequences, encouragement, and the four goals of misbehavior.
Our Approach
Our therapeutic approach is based on non-judgment, non-discrimination, and wide-openness. Religion is not used as part of our therapeutic practice. We also make it our mission to keep up with all the amazing research and current findings on positivity, mindfulness, brain plasticity, and more. At Barbara Bernstein, MA, LLC, we strive to create a safe space for clients to unpack their dark side, take a good look at it, and then figure out ways to keep it from dampening their joy.
