Brandon Barton, LMHC

Brandon Barton is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), a credential that designates a licensed professional trained to provide mental health counseling. He earned a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and has cultivated a broad clinical background working with adults, couples, individuals, and families.

His professional experience includes roles in in-patient behavioral health crisis units and crisis stabilization settings, with work at facilities serving both adults and children in Fort Myers, Florida and Plattsburgh, New York. He has also contributed to neuropsychology services and to the Alzheimer’s Disease Assistance Center, where he developed group programming for clients.

Brandon has participated in multiple research projects examining human experience and behavior. He led a quantitative study on the experiences of minority Jewish women immigrants in Canada and presented those findings at McGill University Education Graduate Student Society. He has presented at the North Eastern Evolutionary Psychological Society on how life defeat and victory relate to mood and attachment patterns, and he has been involved in research exploring adult experiences of gender-based violence.

Clinically, he applies Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered approaches, other cognitive behavioral modalities, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Cinematherapy. He describes a professional interest in the phenomena that shape human experience and in how individuals process and respond to those influences.