Michael Barnard
Registered Psychotherapist
Verified by Psychology Today Verified by Psychology Today
8080 State Highway 78 W, Lot 50, Beulah, CO 81023
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Setbacks are not failures but questions asked of our own desire. Finding the way forward sometimes means exiting first through the back door of the symptom. You may yield to your symptom in order to suffer less (or more), or resist it the way you resist scratching that itch that won’t ever keep you from scratching it again, or you can anesthetize it or otherwise exist while it is simultaneously taking up space within you, speaking with your own body, killing your own time. But you can’t really live with your symptom, can you? In analysis the symptom becomes a most singular path to the peculiarity of your own unprecedented being.
Psychoanalysis is known as the “speaking cure” as we are riddled with words, encoded through shifting and loaded phrases, cloven with double-meanings, and we live through the innuendos for our anatomy in place of organs themselves. We are creatures “who make ourselves up,” and who are “made up for ourselves,” in language. Free association is the golden rule.
Where once there were “natural” instincts we have drives including “reason,” and thus we are constantly driven to doubt (among other things). Analysis can at least “shake up the box” and resituate the pieces—sometimes surprisingly in the same moment. This can give new movement to our thoughts and acts, which can immeasurable impact the quality of our lives.
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Fees
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
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Insurance
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Michael Barnard
Registered Psychotherapist
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of Colorado / NLC.0107634 Michael Barnard
- In Practice for 6 Years
- Membership with Colorado Analytic Forum of the Lacanian Field 2017
- Attended Clinical College of Colorado, Graduated 2019
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Michael Barnard
Registered Psychotherapist
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Child
Expertise
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Alcohol Use
- Anger Management
- Antisocial Personality
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Autism
- Behavioral Issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bisexual
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Chronic Pain
- Chronic Relapse
- Codependency
- Dissociative Disorders (DID)
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Drug Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Eating Disorders
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Gambling
- Geriatric and Seniors
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Infidelity
- Internet Addiction
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Mood Disorders
- Narcissistic Personality (NPD)
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Parenting
- Personality Disorders
- Psychosis
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sex Therapy
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Addiction
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Sports Performance
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
- Teen Violence
- Thinking Disorders
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Video Game Addiction
- Weight Loss
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Michael Barnard
Registered Psychotherapist
Client Focus
Age
Toddler ,
Children (6 to 10) ,
Preteen ,
Teen ,
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Age
Toddler ,
Children (6 to 10) ,
Preteen ,
Teen ,
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Psychoanalytic
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Michael Barnard
Registered Psychotherapist
Location
Additional Location
1638 Pennsylvania Street
Denver, CO 80203
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Michael Barnard
Registered Psychotherapist