David Barton

David Barton holds a conviction that most therapy falls short not because people aren’t trying, but because it doesn’t go deep enough — and that real, lasting change requires meeting the parts of ourselves we’ve spent years avoiding. A Licensed Mental Health Counselor based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he draws on Jungian depth psychology, existential therapy, and the humanistic traditions of Rogers, May, and Yalom to help clients shift not just their circumstances but the way they perceive them entirely.

David works with teenagers and adults navigating depression, anxiety, trauma, panic, grief, and loss, as well as couples who have grown distant or stuck in conflict. For individual clients — including teens whose inner lives are increasingly shaped by the gap between who they are offline and who they perform online — much of the work unfolds through dream exploration and talk therapy. For couples, he uses Emotionally Focused Therapy, a research-supported short-term model that typically spans twelve to twenty sessions and shows meaningful improvement in roughly three out of four relationships.

His academic background includes a Ph.D. from Pacifica Graduate Institute, an M.A. in counseling from Antioch University, and a former faculty and directorial role at The Salt Institute, where he worked alongside foundational figures in archetypal psychology. He is currently a training candidate for certification as a Jungian Analyst. Online sessions are available.