Dakota Barrett, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker in Lexington, KY. He has years of experience with complex presentations, including persistent depression and anxiety, trauma, addiction, and attachment issues. He received psychodynamic psychotherapy training through the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute.
Dakota works with adults who are ready to move beyond quick fixes and understand what drives the patterns in their relationships, work, and the way they see themselves. Rather than reducing concerns to a list of symptoms, he takes time to explore what makes each person’s experience unique. His approach centers on one question: why does this keep happening? As those patterns come into clearer view, they often lose their hold, making room for new ways of responding, relating, and living.
In addition to depression, anxiety, and trauma, Dakota supports clients facing relationship problems, personality difficulties, grief, low self-esteem, work stress and burnout, life transitions, and dissociation. Sessions are open and conversational. Clients don’t need to arrive with the right words or a clear explanation of what’s wrong, and the work can simply begin with a conversation.
Dakota sees clients in person at his Lexington office and via telehealth thoughout Kentucky.
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