Welcome Christy Barber, LPCC: Counseling for Teens, Women, Couples & Families in Colorado Springs
We are excited to welcome Christy Barber, LPCC, to the team at Dynamic Counseling.
Christy brings a warm, relational approach to counseling and works with teens, women, couples, and families navigating anxiety, depression, grief and loss, trauma, relationship concerns, identity, parenting, and major life transitions. She also has a particular interest in supporting families touched by foster care and adoption, including parents, caregivers, and teens working through questions of attachment, belonging, and complicated family relationships.
A Place to Feel Seen and Understood
One of the things we appreciate about Christy’s approach is her belief that therapy does not have to begin with figuring out how to “fix” someone.
Sometimes it begins with finally having a place where you can tell the truth about what life has been like.
When we have experienced loss, difficult relationships, family instability, anxiety, trauma, or simply a season of life that feels overwhelming, it can be difficult to make sense of everything while we are living inside of it.
Christy works to create a peaceful and welcoming environment where clients can slow down, explore what is happening beneath the surface, and begin to understand themselves and their relationships differently.
Attachment and Relationship Focused Therapy
Christy’s work is relational, attachment focused, and experiential. Her clinical approach draws from Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), family systems, narrative approaches, and arts integration.
Rather than looking only at symptoms, this kind of work creates space to understand the experiences, emotions, relationships, and patterns underneath them.
For someone struggling with anxiety, for example, the question may not only be “How do we make the anxiety stop?”
There may also be room to become curious:
What is the anxiety responding to?
When did I learn to respond this way?
What happens in my relationships when I feel afraid or uncertain?
What do I need that I have difficulty asking for?
Therapy can become a place to understand those patterns rather than simply fight against them.
Counseling for Teens and Families
Adolescence can bring enormous questions about identity, independence, relationships, belonging, and family.
For teens who have experienced adoption, foster care, trauma, loss, or complicated family relationships, those questions can become even more layered.
Christy enjoys working with teens and their families as they navigate these experiences, while also helping parents and caregivers better understand what may be happening underneath a young person's behavior.
The goal is not to decide who is “the problem.” It is to help families understand one another more deeply and begin creating healthier ways of relating.
Couples Counseling with Christy
Christy also works with couples who feel disconnected or caught in patterns they cannot seem to change.
Many couples arrive at therapy focused on the content of their arguments. Who said what? Who started it? Who was right?
But underneath the argument, there is often something much more vulnerable happening.
One partner may be reaching desperately for reassurance while the other withdraws. One may become critical when they feel unimportant. Another may shut down because conflict feels overwhelming.
Christy helps couples become curious about these patterns, understand what is happening beneath them, and begin finding their way back toward connection. Her training includes Emotionally Focused Therapy, an attachment based approach commonly used in couples work.
Faith and Spirituality Can Have a Place in Therapy
For clients who want it, Christy also welcomes conversations about faith and spirituality and how a person's relationship with God intersects with emotional health, relationships, identity, and life experiences.
This is always based on the client's preferences. For some people, spirituality is central to how they understand themselves and the world. For others, it may not be part of therapy at all.
There is room for both.
Meet Christy Barber, LPCC
Christy earned her Master of Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Colorado Christian University and her B.A. in Psychology from Liberty University. Her additional training includes Accelerated Experiential Psychodynamic Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Outside the therapy room, Christy enjoys reading, hiking with her dog, spending time with her husband and children, and being involved in her community. Originally from the East Coast, she still has a strong connection to the ocean and being near the water.
We are so glad to have Christy joining Dynamic Counseling and offering another thoughtful option for individuals, couples, teens, and families looking for counseling in Colorado Springs.
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