Dan Barron PsyD

Over the decades that I have been practicing, I have worked with several hundred school age children, adolescents, and adults suffering from OCD and related disorders. I consider myself to be a family oriented psychologist, so treatment typically involves concerned others, including the parents, siblings, and children of my clients. I estimate that 50-60% of my clients at any given time struggle OCD related concerns, and often with co-occurring concerns such as ADHD, Tourette’s Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

I provide services to school age children, adolescents, and adults in individual, family and group therapy modalities specializing in the assessment and treatment related to anxiety, OCD spectrum disorders, pervasive developmental disorders, mood, learning, ADHD, Tourette Syndrome, habit disorders, behavior and relationship problems. In addition, I provide supervision and consultation to pre and postdoctoral psychology students and Marriage and Family Therapists.

I have over 35 years experience in treating the full range of OCD spectrum disorders. Beginning in my graduate school training, continuing through pre and post doctoral internships to present practice, I have been extensively trained in traditional cognitive behavioral and “Third Wave” treatment modalities through my affiliations with the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, and The OCD Foundation Annual Conference. Currently, my approach to working with OCD relies heavily on exposure response prevention, but from an ACT orientation.

Our family is diverse in all possible ways. We are multi-ethnic (African American, European American, Native American, Filipino American, and Maori), and our family values are inclusivity, respect and social justice. To me, therapy is a collaborative process that begins with a comprehensive evaluation and then addresses mutually agreed-upon goals using evidence-based treatment approaches. I value an approach to therapy that is non-judgemental, evidence-based, trauma informed and intersectional in perspective.

My training in cultural anthropology and systems theory informs how I work with issues of diversity. My clients are diverse in all ways possible; gender identification and sexual orientation, ethnicity/cultural, socio-economic status, education level, cognitive ability and physical ability, religious/spiritual orientation, generation, personal history (including the experience of trauma), and always by their relative access to power (or lack thereof). As a psychologist I hope to create an environment where my patients feel invited and encouraged to discuss our various statuses in the work we do together.