Heal your past.
Nurture your future.
Evidence-based therapy and reparenting tools to help you build emotional security from the inside out — for yourself and your family.
EI’m Dr. Lara Barbir, Psy.D. — clinical psychologist, speaker, author, faculty member of The Chicago School, and creator of the Reparenting Course. My work helps people heal generational wounds so they can live and parent with greater confidence, connection, and compassion.
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Healing doesn’t require perfection.
My work is rooted in trauma-informed healing that prioritizes safety, compassion, and pacing. Many people who find their way here are insightful, capable, and deeply self-aware — yet still feel stuck in patterns shaped by experiences their nervous systems never fully processed.
Healing doesn’t happen through insight alone. It happens through practice, repetition, and a safer relationship with yourself.
The Reparenting Course
A guided, trauma-informed space to practice:
- Emotional regulation
- Self-soothing without minimizing
- Boundaries without guilt
- Repair instead of self-criticism
This isn’t a program to fix yourself. It’s support for learning how to relate to yourself differently — over time.
Explore the Reparenting Course →If practicing this work on your own feels hard, you’re not doing it wrong. Support matters.
Take what resonates, move slowly, and let your nervous system set the pace.
Learn about EMDR for Depression →I also speak and teach on trauma, reparenting, and emotional security for organizations and professional audiences.
Learn more about Speaking Engagements →
🌿Therapy
Trauma-informed psychotherapy for adults and teens in California navigating depression, trauma, anxiety, insomnia, and life transitions.
My approach integrates EMDR, relational work, and nervous-system regulation to support healing at a pace your system can trust.
This work is collaborative, compassionate, and grounded in safety — not pressure.
🎤 Speaking & Trainings
Keynotes, workshops, and trainings on trauma, reparenting, and emotional security for clinicians, educators, healthcare teams, and organizations.
My talks translate complex trauma science into practical, human tools that foster regulation, self-compassion, and generational healing.
My recently launched book with New Harbinger, called EMDR for Depression: Overcome the Trauma That Drives Your Symptoms, explores how unresolved trauma shapes our emotions — and how a journey toward acceptance using mindfulness, self-compassion, values clarification, and EMDR tools can heal the roots.