Katie Barr is licensed in California as a Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and received her undergraduate degree from the University of California San Diego, and her graduate degree from San Diego State University. She has worked in a variety of settings including residential treatment, outpatient services, and school settings. She has extensive experience with assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in the areas of crisis intervention, addiction, mood disorders, and parenting issues. She also had mentored and provided clinical supervision to fellow therapist and therapy interns for over 10 years.

Her approach is positive, affirming, and nurturing and the people she works with come from a variety of issues and backgrounds. Clients explore feelings and thought patterns and focus on areas that they would like to change. She will help you understand the challenges that you face and will provide support to confront these issues and overcome them.

Katie works from where the client is while providing structured guidance toward their goals. Katie utilizes a variety of techniques depending on the needs of the clients she will develop a treatment plan that is individual to them. She works primarily from both the cognitive/behavioral perspective and the family systems frame of reference. Her specializations include working with difficult adolescents, couples therapy, crisis intervention, depression, anxiety and stress, women issues, family conflict/parenting issues, student issues, victims of crime.

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To schedule an appointment with Katie Barr, LCSW please call (760) 519-2555