Dr. Charles Barringer

With 27 years in mental health and experience spanning community clinics, university counseling centers, and 10 years with United Nations agencies across Africa and Europe, I bring a wide range of clinical and life experience to every session. I work with individuals and couples on challenges related to anxiety, mood, sleep, trauma, and substance use, as well as relationships, drawing on a humanistic approach that centers around your unique needs, background, and aspirations. My goal is practical: to help you identify what is getting in the way of your growth and well being and develop a successful way forward. If you are ready to make a course correction, I would be glad to support and work with you.

I have included a more detailed summary of my experience below if you would like to know more about me.

I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. I earned my doctorate at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago Campus, and completed an internship at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. Both are APA-approved programs. Prior to earning my doctorate, I was a high school teacher, an international student advisor at a university, and I worked in an acute-care inpatient facility where I helped bring clients back from the brink. After earing my doctorate I worked as a psychotherapist in two university-based counseling centers, as a community health psychologist with the Chicago Department of Public Health and the US National Health Service Corps, and as the Chief Staff Counselor with three different United Nations agencies for 10 years in Africa and Europe. One recent assignment was with the US Air Force as a primary care psychologist and health consultant in the Family Health Clinic at Malcolm Grow Medical Center.

I have been in private practice since 2017. I provide different levels of support including counselling, coaching and psychotherapy for individuals and couples. My areas of clinical expertise include treatment for mood, anxiety, sleep, trauma, substance use disorders, and managing conditions of chronic mental illness. In addition to clinical conditions, I am an expert in the areas of stress, crisis and conflict management, teaching resilience and positive thinking, and enhancing personal growth and development. I have worked with people from many different cultural and ethnic backgrounds and employ a client-centered existential-humanistic model that respects the unique needs, backgrounds, and aspirations of each client. My goal is to help you solve problems and improve how you manage and overcome the health and life challenges you have encountered.

I hope you will feel heard, understood, and welcome. Like most of us you are looking to make a course correction and to discover some of your options. Our first session is a conversation. We will spend time getting to know each other: what brings you in, what has and has not worked before, and what you are hoping for. I will ask questions and listen carefully, so you can set the pace. By the end, you will have a clearer sense of whether we are a good fit and, I hope, feel a little less alone with whatever you are carrying. There is no pressure. We go at your pace.