Katrina Barnes, MA, LMFT

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20 min free consult


 (openings for some time spots)
  • Healthy life means a balance. This balance is most important and present in our relationships. Therapy can help by connecting mind, body, spirit and our relationships with others. A change in one area often ties to threads in another.
  •  Brokenness in our primary relationships can disconnect family, work, community and culture. Together we can re-weave these threads through our stories about ourselves, and people around us. We can change the next chapter. 
  •  What we do, who we are and what our relationships mean are all important. We need space to be unique and we also need relationships that provide closeness.  
  • We sometimes talk about problem-knotted stories of our past. We also need to make plans to change and grow. It is not about blaming, shaming or controlling those we care about. 
  • A counselor is a listener, a curious and caring researcher and co-writer. Together we find the strengths, successes and supportive relationships that are often already in place. Together we add to the stories, add supportive people.
  • This includes carefully understanding and sometimes editing words and actions, describing emotions and what they mean.
  • As we grow our life story shifts from seeing only the knots and broken threads to the other side of a greater interwoven tapestry. We seek through healing relationships to re-member (connect) our families, faith communities and other societies where positive changes and growth are celebrated.
  •  The following are some areas that I have been trained and have experience in:
  •   Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (looks at thinking patterns and positive reinforcements) 
  •  Motivational Interviewing (an intense listening process that identifies your own goals and resources to meet them)          
  • Bowenian Family Systems (focus on appropriate family roles, boundaries, responding instead of emotional reactions)        
  •  Solution-Focused (identifies small attainable goals and the strengths that help you reach them)          
  • Narrative (integrating your experiences and strengths into a story that helps shift from problems to solutions and developing relationships that will witness the new changes)


Katrina Barnes Reaches

Vancouver WA