Jay R. Barrow works with children, adolescents, and adults who wish to lead more authentic, meaningful, fulfilling lives and to face life’s challenges with resilience. His approach to psychotherapy integrates psychoanalytic and existential modalities. The cornerstone of his understanding of psychotherapy is that appreciating and exploring who they are and how they have arrived here at a deep level offers them the ability to exercise more choice about where they are going. He respects the powers of the human imagination and the capacity to make meaning in assisting people across the lifespan in understanding themselves and the inner workings of their lives.

For all clients, he provides a confidential, trauma-informed space to engage in the exploration and healing necessary to reach their goals. He prizes the individual, lived experiences of each client. For child clients specifically, he provides psychoanalytic play therapy to help children to understand and to express themselves through both play and language. Psychoanalytic play therapy offers children the opportunity to increase their ability to tolerate complex thoughts and feelings, and to build psychological insight and resilience to support their development. His areas of specialization include depression, anxiety, developmental challenges across the lifespan, existential concerns, identity development, personality pathology, and psychological challenges related to chronic illnesses.