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Meet Kendall Barrios, MS, LMHC
Hi, I'm Kendall!
Kendall Barrios is the founder of Cora Therapy, LLC, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor committed to providing individuals with a safe environment to explore their inner worlds in order to heal, grow, and live a more peaceful life. She provides individualized and culturally competent care to clients, recognizing that everyone has a unique background. With a focus on compassion, she helps clients build the skills and resilience they need to navigate their healing.
Therapeutic Approach
Kendall's approach is person-centered, trauma-informed, and integrative, combining evidence-based strategies such as Psychodynamic Theory, EMDR, CBT, and Mindfulness-based CBT. Her clients have described her as warm, compassionate, and calming. She believes that the therapeutic alliance is integral to achieving growth and sustainable changes. The therapeutic alliance is built through trust and collaboration to ensure therapist and client are working with each other to reach your goals.
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Specialties
Cora therapy is a virtual therapy practice based in St. Petersburg, Florida. We provide virtual therapy services across the state of Florida. Kendall specializes in working with adults managing eating disorders, trauma, perfectionism, and anxiety. She is trained in EMDR and is an EMDRIA approved therapist, using EMDR to assist clients with further processing when necessary. Cultural competency is a priority of treatment. Kendall is an LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent affirming therapist dedicated to ensuring clients feel understood, respected, and safe in sessions.
Education and Credentials
Kendall earned her B.A. degree with a major in Psychology from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg in 2019. Kendall furthered her education, earning an M.S. in Psychology with a focus in counseling psychology from Florida International University in 2022, in which she held a clinical focus on eating disorders through her internship. Kendall is also an EMDRIA approved therapist.
Kendall has worked across multiple levels of care at eating disorder treatment facilities-including residential, PHP, IOP, and outpatient settings. Her experience provides her with a unique understanding of the challenges clients can face at each stage of recovery. In addition to her experience with treating eating disorders, she has also worked in the non-profit sector to provide therapeutic services to survivors of sexual violence.
Origins of Cora Therapy
Cora is inspired by Greek Mythology and the story of Persephone. Persephone's journey is often looked at using a Jungian interpretation, as it represents the process of individuation and explores themes of life, rebirth, self-discovery, and the process of transformation.
Persephone begins her journey inexperienced and unaware of the power that she holds within herself. Her descent into "Queen of the Underworld" symbolizes a pull into the unconscious, whether it be through trauma or unexplored emotions, in which she confronts the unconscious. Upon her emergence, she has new insights into herself and is able to integrate both the light and the darkness she has learned along the way.
With Cora Therapy, this is a representation of what I work with my clients to achieve. Although you may be dealing with things that can feel intimidating and difficult to work through, I work with my clients to navigate their healing and recovery by learning more about themselves and building resilience through discovery.