Brandon Barton

Brandon Barton is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in New York with eight years of clinical experience. He earned his master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and has provided services to adults, couples, individuals, and families throughout his career.

His background includes extensive work in crisis unit inpatient behavioral health and staffing crisis stabilization units for both adults and children in Fort Myers, Florida and in Plattsburgh, New York. He has also worked in a neuropsychology clinic and at an Alzheimer’s Disease Assistance Center, where he helped develop group programs for clients.

Barton’s professional interests extend into research on human experience. He has participated in multiple studies, including a quantitative project on the experiences of minority Jewish women immigrants in Canada, which he presented to the McGill University Education Graduate Student Society. He has also presented at the North Eastern Evolutionary Psychological Society on how life defeat and victory relate to mood and attachment, and he was involved in research examining adult experiences of gender-based violence.

In clinical work he draws from evidence-informed approaches such as Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered methods, a range of Cognitive Behavioral therapies, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and cinematherapy. He combines this practical experience and research background to support clients facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, addictions, grief, self-esteem concerns, depression, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue.