NURSE PRACTITIONER · LICENSED MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST

NURSE PRACTITIONER · LICENSED MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST

Integrated Mental Health Care for Couples and Individuals

Integrated Mental Health Care for Couples and Individuals

Integrated Mental Health Care for Couples and Individuals

I am a Board Certified Nurse Practitioner and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist providing counseling and medication management for adults.

For individuals, I provide counseling alongside medical assessment and medication management when appropriate. For couples, I provide psychotherapy to help partners navigate relationship challenges, strengthen communication, rebuild connection, and support one another through difficult transitions.

Nicole Barr, Nurse Practitioner and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Couples Counseling

In my counseling-only practice I work with all types of couples to address communication, conflict, sexuality, or coping with health challenges.

Couples Counseling

In my counseling-only practice I work with all types of couples to address communication, conflict, sexuality, or coping with health challenges.

Individuals

I offer in-depth consultation and ongoing treatment for adults who want to change a behavior, work on mood, or address the places where mind and body meet. I draw on cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and health counseling, and I can prescribe medication when it’s useful.

My specialty is working with people navigating major transitions and life-changing diagnoses — including postpartum, menopause, cancer survivorship, and genetic or neurological diagnoses. Because of my extensive nurse practitioner background, I can do more than treat mind-body concerns: I can talk with you about your medical reality, interpret what your other providers have told you, and support you through whatever health challenges you’re facing.

If you’re already working with a therapist, I can provide medication management only, in coordination with your current provider.

Individuals

I offer in-depth consultation and ongoing treatment for adults who want to change a behavior, work on mood, or address the places where mind and body meet. I draw on cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and health counseling, and I can prescribe medication when it’s useful.

My specialty is working with people navigating major transitions and life-changing diagnoses — including postpartum, menopause, cancer survivorship, and genetic or neurological diagnoses. Because of my extensive nurse practitioner background, I can do more than treat mind-body concerns: I can talk with you about your medical reality, interpret what your other providers have told you, and support you through whatever health challenges you’re facing.

If you’re already working with a therapist, I can provide medication management only, in coordination with your current provider.

Supportive Cancer Care

I offer supportive care for cancer patients and caregivers facing cancer at any point from hereditary risk through diagnosis, treatment to long-term survivorship. I have spent more than 20 years providing both medical care and mental health care for patients with cancer.

I provide a combination of services that is relatively unique outside of major medical centers — medication for mood and symptoms management (always in collaboration with your medical providers) as well as counseling, guidance and support around the complexity of cancer treatment.

Supportive Cancer Care

I offer supportive care for cancer patients and caregivers facing cancer at any point from hereditary risk through diagnosis, treatment to long-term survivorship. I have spent more than 20 years providing both medical care and mental health care for patients with cancer.

I provide a combination of services that is relatively unique outside of major medical centers — medication for mood and symptoms management (always in collaboration with your medical providers) as well as counseling, guidance and support around the complexity of cancer treatment.

For Physicians and Therapists Looking to Make a Referral

I welcome referrals from colleagues whose patients or clients need attention to the psychological and emotional dimensions of serious or complex medical situations.

  • Medical Providers: For patients whose mental health or emotional adjustment is shaped by a serious medical situation, and who can benefit from a clinician who can hold both their medical and psychological needs in the same conversation. I can treat mood and symptoms (with communication with your team) or see your patients for couples and families counseling when that is needed. Some of the areas where I have in depth training are oncology, neurologic diagnoses, postpartum mood issues, menopause and LGBTQ+ health. I’ve spent my entire career in academic medical centers and my practice is evidence-based, collaborative and thoughtful.

  • Therapists: If your individual client is in a struggling relationship and you don’t see couples, I welcome referrals into my couples practice. Likewise if you are seeing a couple and one member is coping with complex mental health or medical issues, I can be a referral for that individual to support the work you are doing.

  • Medication Management: If you have a client whose care could benefit from psychiatric medication, I’m glad to see your client for evaluation and ongoing medication management to complement the therapy you are already providing.

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Nicole Barr, NP, LMFT

#102791 Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

#13643 Nurse Practitioner, California Board of Registered Nursing

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