When we're together, the focus is on you.
But before we start, you may want to know a little more about me. 

I'm a licensed therapist based in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. I offer telehealth throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and South Carolina.

You’ve spent years building a life that works on the outside. I’ve spent two decades mastering the tools to make sure it works on the inside. My practice is dedicated to helping people who are used to being in control but feel like they are running on fumes. If you are tired of "white-knuckling" your way through the day and are ready to stop analyzing your life and start operating with clarity, you’re in the right place.

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I don’t believe in a "one-size-fits-all" approach. My work is highly integrative. I use somatic, attachment-based, and parts-work modalities. My approach is active, collaborative, and results-oriented. Think of me as a mechanic for your internal wiring. I have a massive toolbox for your emotions and brain: I don’t use every tool on every client. Instead, I use the right tool at the right time to create a custom roadmap for your nervous system. Whether we need to discharge physical tension, decode your relational blueprint, or connect with the parts of you that are stuck, I have the precision tools to help you move from survival mode to self-led clarity. We don’t just talk about the problem; we resolve the physical tension that keeps you locked in reactive patterns. My goal is simple: I want you to leave our sessions feeling clear, steady, and back in the driver’s seat of your own life.

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I am committed to the highest level of ongoing education, ensuring I bring the most powerful, evidence-based & holistic techniques to our work. My toolkit includes:

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• EMDR & Advanced Flash Technique: to reduce distress linked to past experiences that are still impacting your current life and functioning. 

• Attachment-Focused Therapy: helping you understand how your early experiences impact your current connections so you can build stronger, more authentic relationships.

• ACT, Mindfulness & Motivational Interviewing: We use these to build psychological flexibility, clarify your goals, and remove the friction between where you are and where you want to be.

• Somatic and Nervous System Regulation: We work with the body, not just the mind. If your brain knows you're safe but your body is still acting like there's a fire, your nervous system is stuck in emergency mode. We use body based techniques to help discharge that trapped tension, calm the fight or flight response, and help your body remember how to relax. 

• Parts Work: We connect directly to the different "parts" of you: the protector, the inner critic, the one who freezes. Drawing from trauma-informed stabilization techniques (TIST) and IFS, we build a relationship with these parts to stop internal conflicts and help you lead from a calm, grounded place. 

• SSP (Safe and Sound Protocol) & Yoga/Reiki: To support deep physiological regulation and nervous system health, holistically. 
  
  How We Work Together
  I offer in-person sessions in Old Saybrook, CT, and virtual therapy for residents of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and South Carolina. Whether we have 60 minutes to clear a block or a full-day intensive to resolve a complex pattern, we will move you out of chronic survival mode and into a grounded, steady, and connected version of yourself. I am warm, attuned to you, and direct. I'll honor your pace and your capacity while guiding you. No pressure to perform. No pressure to rush. Just steady guidance toward where you actually want to go. I'll honor your pace and your capacity while guiding you. You set the pace. I bring the map. The only requirement is that you want to get to the destination. If you’re ready to stop fighting your own system and start operating at your full potential, I look forward to talking with you.​​​

I can't wait to meet you.
Kasey Barret, LICSW​, LCSW​​​​​

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Licenses, Certifications & Trainings 

Master of Social Work

Connecticut LCSW

Massachusetts and Rhode Island LICSW

South Carolina Telehealth License: https://llr.sc.gov/TeleHealth/SocialWork.html

Trained in EMDR 

Additional EMDR Trainings: Treating Headaches & Migraines with EMDR, EMDR for Spiritual Trauma and Religious Abuse, EMDR for Preverbal Trauma and Attachment,

EMDR Treatment for OCD, EMDR & Dissociative Disorders

Advanced Trained in Flash Technique

Certified SSP Provider (Safe and Sound Protocol)

Certified Yoga Teacher

Certified Usui & Karuna Reiki Master