Person-Centered Therapy Aimed At Inner Freedom and Authentic Living
Los Angeles & Throughout California
For:
The Overwhelmed
The Adrift
The Deep-Feeling
The Misunderstood​
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~ The artistically gifted who can create beauty but no longer feel it?
~ The person who can’t name their pain, only carry its weight?
~ The intellectual who can’t think their way out?
~ The empath who’s been told they are too sensitive?
~ The achiever who’s vanished inside their own success?
~ The one who’s mastered blending in, but longs to be seen?
~ The partner who feels lonelier in the relationship than outside it?
If you’re not looking for a manual or a formula, but a space to be deeply known, my practice may be right for you.
Come as you are. Be met as a whole person. Live freely.
A Fellow Person, Listening Fully.
My name is Jimmy Barker, an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. I work with people yearning for a deeper contact with themselves, to feel more whole and integrated, to reconnect with what’s been buried, silenced, or forgotten, to make meaning out of pain, to experience life with fresh eyes, and, ultimately, to live in deeper alignment with their genuine self.
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My approach isn't about fixing you. It’s about creating a therapeutic relationship where you feel deeply seen and heard, so that real healing and growth can emerge from within you.
Unfold, unmask, and un-should yourself.
Whether you're in the midst of pain, an identity or role that no longer fits, frozen with shame, stuck in a creative drought, or a relationship that feels like it’s slipping through your hands, I offer a therapy experience centered on your unique path that is free of judgment, pressure, or instruction.
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Therapy with me isn’t about striving. It’s about contact. A space where the pressure lifts and something fresh and alive can begin.
​I’ve had specialist training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, attachment theory, mindfulness, somatic EMDR, and interpersonal neurobiology. Previously, I practiced at a non-profit working with kids, teens, adults, and families. More than tools, I bring my full presence and genuine self, because the therapeutic relationship is the work.
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​Before becoming a therapist, I spent years in London and Los Angeles in the music, fashion, and cultural strategy industries. That journey gave me a deep reverence for creative minds, sensitive souls, and the complexity of being human. I know what it’s like to be in creative spaces where image is everything and vulnerability is currency. That world taught me how rare and how healing it is to be real with someone. It also taught me to value difference, to listen closely to what often goes unspoken, and to honor the many forms authenticity can take.​​
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Master of Marriage & Family Therapy - Phillips Graduate Institute, CA
Somatic EMDR Practitioner – Somatic EMDR Therapy Certificate – The Embody Lab
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Externship – TRI EFT Alliant
Trauma, Attachment & Neuroscience with Bessel van der Kolk, M.D – PESI
Attachment and Interpersonal Neurobiology in Couples Therapy - Mindsight Institute
The Neurobiology of Attachment – NICABM
Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy - Focusing Institute
Contact
PHONE
You don’t need to “get it right.”
You don’t need to be good at this.
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Call or email me for a free 20-minute consultation.
No pressure.
Simply a chance to see if we connect.
213 935-0442
ADDRESS
3405 Glendale Blvd, Atwater Village, 90039