Bruce Barrett, LMHC

LMHC in Massachusetts with 40 years of experience, Bruce Barrett helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, relationship strain, grief, anger, career questions, and life changes. He uses narrative approaches, mindfulness methods, and psychodynamic ideas to help people talk through problems and explore meaning. Sessions are offered in English and German.Bruce describes himself primarily as a Narrative Therapist and draws on dream work and polarity work from Gestalt practice. He also uses elements of Focusing, a body-based way to notice inner signals, and mindfulness for stress management. His background includes work in inpatient and outpatient addiction settings with a 12-step orientation.Bruce brings long clinical experience together with personal experience in recovery. He has 40 years of continuous sobriety and has worked as a Certified Alcoholism Counselor in Massachusetts. That history informs how he approaches addiction, relapse risk, and maintaining daily recovery practices.He has experience supporting people on the Autism Spectrum and says family experience helps him connect with adults and younger clients who identify as autistic. He also pays attention to issues that affect people from military families and those who grew up overseas as third culture kids.Bruce spent years as an Associate Psychologist before licensure and completed his LMHC licensure training in Massachusetts. He describes therapy as a careful, conversational process that looks at stories people tell about their lives and the small practices that change how they cope. People meet a practitioner who blends narrative thinking with mindfulness and trauma-focused work.

How Jungian, Narrative and Mindfulness work in remote sessions

Jungian-informed work here looks at dreams, symbols, and personal myths to surface meaning and recurring patterns. That approach can help when people feel stuck by repeated behaviors or unhelpful inner voices.

Narrative therapy focuses on the stories a person tells about themselves and their life. Sessions use conversation to separate problems from identity and to identify alternative stories and actions that support change.

Mindfulness is used as a practical support technique. It teaches simple attention practices and stress-management exercises that people can use between sessions to reduce reactivity and steady their thinking.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. That collaborative planning can shift as therapy continues.

The biography does not list specific online session formats. Confirm the current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to schedule sessions around work, reduce travel time, and allow short check-ins when needed. Therapists can guide which approach and session length will best fit daily life and ongoing goals.