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Psychotherapy practice specializing in helping those navigate their most challenging personal and professional life transitions. All are welcome!

Aimee Barr & Associates specializes in helping teens, adults and families navigate their most challenging life transitions. Our practice includes a group of seasoned mental health clinicians, who utilize a variety of individually-targeted clinical interventions to help clients move forward when they feel stuck. We believe that therapy should be action-oriented, interactive, and include understanding an individual’s psychological journey. One of the ways we reach this understanding is through exploring the impact of intergenerational trauma, culture, ethnicity, race, and gender identity upon development. In addition to extensive clinical training, clinicians are also experienced in practicing psychological astrology and will utilize this modality when appropriate.

12/19/2025

Some years melt into each other like watercolors in the rain. And then there are the ones that stand out like neon signs you can see from space—possibly Mars.
2025 was one of those NEON years.

When the outer planets change signs in the rare way they did this past year, big shifts happen: changes, losses, new beginnings, births, deaths, transformation and endings. The whole cosmic package deal—sometimes you want to hide in a blanket fort, and sometimes you emerge ready to take on the world. (Often both in the same week!)

As we’re all preparing to close this chapter, I’m genuinely glad 2025 is wrapping up. Like, truly—no offense, 2025, but you know what you did.

But I also carry a deep well of gratitude for everything this year taught us. For the unexpected moments that took our breath away, the beautiful ones that moved us, and for all the opportunities to keep healing, keep growing, and sometimes keep pretending we know what we’re doing.

And mostly? I’m grateful for community. For YOU.
Because our community really is our immunity, and I’ve never felt that truth more powerfully than this year. When love is done right, we can be the soft place to land for each other and the cheerleaders encouraging one another to keep going, keep believing in goodness, and keep striving for more.

Sending so much love and all my wishes for kindness, compassion, and peace in the year ahead. May your 2026 overflow with moments that surprise you, opportunities to create beauty, and chances to love big and live boldly.
We’ve all earned it—and probably deserve a nap too. ✨

12/19/2025

Here’s the thing about this final new moon of 2025:

🌟We’re standing at a crossroads between the lives we’re living and the lives we’re aching to live.

🌟Dreaming big? That’s the easy part. But true courage isn’t just in the dreaming—it’s in the staying. It’s in rolling up our sleeves when reality doesn’t match the vision.

🌟This new moon is asking us something uncomfortable: Are we seeing what we want to see, or can we be brave enough to hold space for what actually is?

🌟Here’s where it gets interesting—
Our power comes from who we choose to be when things unfold differently than we planned. Real abundance isn’t just positive thinking. It’s the vulnerable belief that when doors close, we’re not being punished—we’re being redirected.

🌟So as we close out 2025, I’m inviting you into something bigger:
-The willingness to dream boldly AND stay grounded in truth.
-The courage to want more AND accept what is.
-The wisdom to know that sometimes “not now” means “I’ve got something better for you.”
That’s the sweet spot. That’s where the real magic lives. 🌙✨

12/04/2025

🌟Here’s something worth considering : we are all walking around as expert storytellers. We’ve crafted entire narratives about who we are, what we’re worth, what other people mean by that look they gave us. We’ve got origin stories, villain arcs, the whole Netflix series running on repeat in our minds.

🌟This full moon in Gemini is asking us to pick up our red pen and do some serious editing. Maybe even delete a few chapters. Because here’s the hard truth: sometimes the stories we’re clinging to? They’re the very thing keeping us small and stuck.

🌟We get so attached to our narratives that we don’t leave room for anyone—including ourselves—to grow, change, or surprise us. We slap labels on things the second they feel uncomfortable: “That’s bad. They’re wrong. I’m too much. I’m not enough.” And just like that, the story hardens into concrete.

🌟But healing? Real healing starts when we get brutally honest. We have to name our wounds, look our triggers dead in the eye, and admit where we spiral when we feel rejected or left behind.

🌟And then—this is the beautiful part—we get to rewrite it. We become the loving, steady inner parent we always needed, the one who says, “Hey, I see you. You’re safe. Let’s try something different this time.

🌟Your full moon assignment:
Look at the stories you’ve been telling about yourself. The ones on repeat. The ones you’d defend in court. Get curious about where you might be demanding that other people fit into your script instead of letting them be who they actually are.

🌟Full moons show us our projections—what we see “out there” is usually a mirror for what’s going on “in here.” So if something or someone is triggering you right now, pause. Get curious. Ask yourself: What part of me needs more attention, more kindness, more grace?

That’s where the real story begins. ✨ ♐️ ❄️

11/26/2025

❤️Here’s the thing about Thanksgiving: it asks us to hold some pretty big contradictions. And let me tell you, as human beings, we often struggle with that. Our brains would much prefer to file everything neatly into “good” or “bad” folders and call it a day. But real healing? That only starts when we get honest, get curious, and are willing to dig into the mess.

❤️So this Thanksgiving, let’s do exactly that. Yes, it’s uncomfortable to sit with the fact that this holiday—now centered on thankfulness and gratitude—was rooted in a period that led to the devastation of Native American peoples and cultures. But here’s what I’m learning: the warm, fuzzy story of gratitude, family, and homemade stuffing can coexist with a much heavier, more tragic historical truth. Not easily. Not simply. But it can.

❤️Sometimes we need to question the stories we’ve inherited—the ones we tell ourselves and the ones passed down to us. We need to be truthful about the harm that was inflicted AND make space for genuine gratitude. It’s uncomfortable work, but it’s the work.

❤️And here’s what matters: healing needs to be available for everyone. Whether our ancestors were perpetrators of harm or victims of it, we all deserve healing. We all need culturally competent care and safety. We all deserve access to support.

❤️This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for healing itself. I see so many people doing the unglamorous, difficult work—facing intergenerational trauma, confronting their shadow sides, and somehow still managing to open their hearts wider despite everything. I’m grateful for love, for truth, for compassion, and for the humility to know that life is meant to be questioned, considered, challenged—a live laboratory for learning (and occasionally failing spectacularly).

❤️So I wish you a Thanksgiving where you question the narratives you’ve been handed. I also invite you to let more love in and keep your heart wide open inside this beautifully imperfect, wonderfully wild, gloriously messy world.

❤️Wishing everyone celebrating a heartfelt holiday—one where you can reflect on the stories handed to you and, in many cases, find the opportunity to write new ones 🩷.

11/20/2025

🌟This Scorpio new moon is bringing ALL the feelings to the surface. And by all, I mean even that resentment from 2019 you swore you’d released. Surprise! It’s back.

🌟Here’s the thing about healing: it doesn’t happen in the avoidance lane. We love to skip the feeling part—distracting ourselves, dumping our emotions on someone else, or thinking our way out of hurt. But feelings aren’t problems to solve; they’re waves to ride.

🌟When we push emotions down, they don’t disappear. They set up camp in our bodies and psyches, showing up later as anxiety, tension, or those patterns that keep us spinning. The good news? Feelings aren’t meant to last forever. They arise, peak, and pass—when we let them.
Scorpio season is asking us to get brave with our shadows and uncomfortable truths.

🌟Sometimes what’s good for us doesn’t feel good in the moment. But our future selves will thank us for getting to ground zero on our pain points. Your job isn’t to be controlled by your feelings or to perform emotional gymnastics. It’s to create space, acknowledge what’s there, let it move through you—and trust that’s where the real shifts happen.

🌟Ride the wave. 🌊✨

11/06/2025

🌟The energy of the full moon in Ta**us is here to remind us to be patient in our pursuit of quality. I know I’m guilty of wanting to move fast, see progress, and get it done yesterday (or better yet, last week). But I’m learning that there is a science to building. And step one of any endeavor needs to be getting back to the basics—yes, even the unglamorous ones.

🌟This beautiful and very potent full moon—happening a day after a monumental and highly historic election day—is tapping us on the shoulder and asking: before we work on thriving, let’s first ask, are the basics covered? That’s right. Are you, your neighbors, and community getting rest, having your voices and needs heard? Are you getting enough nutrients and taking care of wellness in all forms—financial, intellectual, spiritual, emotional, sexual? (Yes, all of them count.) Through remaining disciplined yet grounded in reality, we can release those practices that have us sprinting when we should be strolling.

🌟Ta**us energy wants us to slow down, to balance our opposing needs of stability and transformation. It’s a time to really look at and be of service to those very things you value the most. To be mindful of where you spend your time and your money—because both are precious, and neither should be wasted on things that drain you. Release anything that gets in the way of honoring your best and highest self. You deserve that. We all do.

10/27/2025

🌟One of the biggest astrological themes of this year? It’s asking us to look at where we’re still chasing perfection—and honestly, we might not love what we find.

🌟Here’s the thing: our world is far from perfect. Our inner world? A beautiful mess. The collective world? Well, let’s not even go there right now. But what we can do—what we’re absolutely capable of—is opening our hearts wider. To ourselves. To each other. To the whole imperfect, glorious disaster of being human.

🌟But here’s the plot twist: that relentless drive for perfection, that need to be exactly enough in all the ways we’ve imagined? That’s the very thing slamming our hearts shut. So many of us learned early on that when we became exactly what our family wanted, we finally got the good treatment. The approval. The “yes, that’s my kid” moment. But here’s what nobody tells you: good treatment isn’t the same as love. It’s just good treatment. It’s rewards and relief and maybe, if we’re lucky, a temporary feeling of being enough.

🌟Love doesn’t demand perfection—thank goodness, because we’d all be screwed. But it does ask for discipline, accountability, and self-awareness. And the only way to really practice love is to start with ourselves. Not the highlight reel version. Not the “I’ll love myself when I finally…” version. Just us. As we are. Right now.

🌟When we learn to love ourselves separate from our achievements and failures, something shifts. What we desperately need from other people? It gets quieter. Smaller. And suddenly, we’re free to come together and co-create from a place of wholeness instead of constantly scrambling to feel like we’re enough.

🌟That’s the work. And it’s worth it.

10/21/2025

🩷Our relationships are among life’s most profound teachers. Through those we’re drawn to, those we connect with, and yes—even those who trigger us—we discover the deepest truths about ourselves. This new moon in Libra arrives as a gentle yet powerful invitation to restore balance to the places within us that have tilted too far in one direction.
🩷There are sacred truths woven into the fabric of healing, and they shine especially bright under this lunation. The first: to heal a wound, we must be willing to touch it. During this new moon, you may feel the intensity of Pluto’s square and Chiron’s opposition—a cosmic pressure that asks you to feel deeply. Welcome any pain that surfaces as a guide leading you inward. Get curious. Go deeper. Remember that sometimes what upsets us on the surface is merely a doorway to something older, something truer, waiting to be understood. Let your pain become a detective, helping you find your way back to equilibrium.
The second truth is this: our healing work in this lifetime is always, ultimately, our own. We cannot fix or change another soul, and we cannot return to those who wounded us expecting them to become our healers. Allow this lunation to gently illuminate where codependency and people-pleasing may have taken root in your heart. It’s time to write a new story—one where you are self-determined, whole, and in harmony with yourself. As tempting as it may be to look outward, keep returning your gaze inward. Let any triggers or recurring patterns in your relationships become mirrors, reflecting back the very things you’re here to heal within yourself. ♎️⚖️

10/06/2025

🌟It takes courage to be the first. Sometimes we’re the first to volunteer and share our story. Other times we are the first to confront intergenerational family trauma (thanks for the heirlooms, great-great-grandpa). Sometimes we’re the first to say “I love you,” and other times we’re the first to say, “I need to end this relationship, contract, partnership, or friendship.”

🌟During this Full Moon in Aries, our courage is being summoned to take the first step in a larger battle. So much of our life experience has us focusing on the external: what was done to us, who harmed us, and who we choose to love and fight for. But this lunation? It’s got us turning inward to examine our own relationship to ourselves, the cycles we keep hitting replay on (repetition compulsion is just trauma’s greatest hits album), and where we need to be brave enough to say: no more, this ends now with me.

🌟Letting go and releasing is essential before charging ahead. Maybe you need to release people-pleasing, retire from your unpaid position as everyone’s hero, or finally let go of patterns—and maybe even people—no longer aligned with your values or vision. Look inward during this full moon and first settle any war you’re fighting from within. Once that fire is tamed (not extinguished, just no longer burning down your own house), jump into action. Engage fully in the present and recognize that meaningful new beginnings often happen only after we’re strong enough to accept reality as it is right now—not as we wish it were, not as it used to be, but as it actually is. ♈️ ♎️

10/03/2025

What I’ve Witnessed Lately

If the world had a blender setting called “chaos mode”—we’re in it. Fear and terror show up uninvited.
But here’s what else I’ve witnessed, the stuff that makes my heart do that weird squeeze thing:
✨ A close friend became a foster parent because love isn’t just a feeling—sometimes it’s bunk beds and bedtime stories for kids who desperately need both.
✨ People are still falling in love, looking at this bonkers world and saying, “You know what? I choose you anyway.”
✨ Babies are being born, completely oblivious to the news cycle, ready to laugh at peek-a-boo and remind us what pure joy looks like.
✨ Many therapists are offering pro bono sessions because healing shouldn’t be a luxury, and some superheroes wear cardigans instead of capes.
✨ People are healing—emotionally, physically, spiritually—doing the hard, unglamorous work of putting themselves back together, one breath at a time.
✨ I’ve watched estranged people finally forgive each other. Pride got shoved aside. Bridges got rebuilt. Not pretty, but real.
✨ Every day, people fight to be happier, braver, better. Not Instagram-perfect, but in the messy, stumbling, “I showed up today even though I didn’t want to” way.
✨ And the sunsets? Still stunning. The sky didn’t get the memo about our collective madness.
Here’s the truth they don’t put on motivational posters:
Love doesn’t cancel out pain. They’re awkward roommates who coexist and bump into each other at 3 AM.
But when we make space for love—when we let it pull up a chair next to our grief and fear—something shifts. We start to make sense of the madness. We find courage to act. We remember who we want to be, even when the world begs us to harden or give up.
Love doesn’t erase the hard stuff.
But it gives us a reason to keep going.
And honestly? That’s everything. ✨

09/28/2025

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09/21/2025

✨ Today we witness something important —like settling into theater seats as the story begins. Eclipse energy dissolves into our lives like medicine in water, already flowing through us. This isn’t a single day’s event, but a transformative current shaping the year ahead.
🌟 Solar eclipses occurring on new moons bring fresh beginnings, but this one sits on the South Node at 29 degrees in Virgo—a critical degree where endings and beginnings converge. The South Node asks us to reckon with our past.
🗣️ Freedom of speech takes center stage. We’re called to remember those silenced throughout history, to honor their stories, and understand how their experiences shape our present day. Time to examine the narratives we tell ourselves or have told ourselves about our world.
💫 This energy won’t comfort us—it will however transform us. True healing emerges when we feel deeply, are radically honest and take accountability. This eclipse asks us to seek out silenced voices within ourselves and our community. The Virgo energy is pushing us to learn from those who have been consistently silenced, marginalized and/or overlooked.
🔍 The gift: When we listen deeper, are mindful over where we go to learn, see our responsibility clearly, and commit to change. Turn inward. Let any turmoil become your teacher. We’re capable of so much more.
🌱 The path forward: Truth-telling, listening, sitting with complexity and discomfort and then being courageous. From this foundation, transformation becomes possible. And that’s the beauty of eclipses, they guide us in expanding beyond the here and now.

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