Bruce Barrett, LMHC

Bruce Barrett is an LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) with 40 years of clinical experience based in Massachusetts. He works with adults dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, relationship strain, ADHD, grief, anger, career concerns, and family of origin issues. He also lists trauma and abuse, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and coaching among his areas of focus.

Barrett uses a narrative-based approach in session, helping people tell and reframe the stories that shape their choices. He combines this with mindfulness practices to reduce stress and with psychodynamic ideas to notice recurring patterns that come from earlier relationships. Sessions tend to involve talking through present problems while paying attention to the life story that underlies them.

He brings long experience working with people affected by addiction and recovery. His background includes work as a Certified Alcoholism Counselor and many years supporting people through substance-related concerns with a 12-step orientation. He notes 40 years of continuous sobriety and draws on that lived experience in clinical work.

Barrett has worked with people on the autism spectrum and those with a cross-cultural upbringing. He refers to personal and family experience that shapes his understanding of military-connected childhoods and third culture kid issues. That perspective informs his attention to how childhood roles and expectations persist into adult life.

In sessions he uses dream work and attentional practices to clarify conflicts and choices. He also uses techniques derived from Focusing to help people sort through inner uncertainty. People who want to examine family patterns, attachment themes, or the stories they carry from childhood often find this approach practical and direct.

Approaches like narrative and mindfulness for online sessions