Accepting new clients · Online therapy across New York and New Jersey
Free 30-minute phone consultation.
No cost, no obligation.
Integrative somatic psychotherapy
I am Jeremy Barnett, a licensed therapist working online with adults across New York and New Jersey on trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression, and grief. Talk therapy when talking helps. Body-based work when it does not.
Accepting new clients. Aetna, Oxford, and United Health accepted.
Where most people start
Almost nobody arrives with a clear account of what is wrong. They arrive with a sense that something has been off for a while, and a private worry that saying it out loud will make it real.
Saying it out loud is how it stops running the show. That is the whole of what happens here.
Your life still looks fine on paper, and you are the only one who knows it isn’t.
The drinking, the pills, the thing you keep promising yourself you will handle on Monday. You are not the rock-bottom story, which is exactly why nobody has stopped you.
You have done the talking. You understood it. Nothing in your body got the message.
Insight without relief. The hypervigilance, the flashbacks, the bracing you cannot think your way out of because it never lived in your thoughts to begin with.
You are the one everybody leans on, and you have quietly run out.
The racing mind at bedtime, the dread about the week, the flat heaviness you have learned to work around. You keep asking whether it is bad enough to bother anyone with.
What I work with
Individual therapy for adults, delivered by secure video or phone anywhere in New York or New Jersey.
For what the body kept holding after the mind decided it was over.
Nervous-system work with a certified SEP, for when talking has already taken you as far as it goes.
Six years inside Hazelden Betty Ford and Inter-Care. Nothing you say here will shock me.
For the drinking nobody around you has noticed yet, and the drinking everybody has.
For the racing mind at midnight and the dread that arrives before the day does.
For the flat heaviness that does not lift, and the effort it takes to look fine.
Certified Grief Educator, trained under David Kessler. Grief is not a problem to be solved.
Secure video or phone, anywhere in New York or New Jersey. No commute, no waiting room.
My therapeutic model
Some things resolve when you finally understand them. Others sit in the nervous system, indifferent to how well you have explained them to yourself, and they need to be reached a different way. I work with both, and I do not decide in advance which one you need.
We explore what sits beneath the surface of awareness. What surfaces there is often the thing that has been running the show all along.
Knowing what is happening inside you changes what you can do about it. The models of grief, the twelve steps, the biology of a startled nervous system.
Concrete, evidence-based tools you can use on a Tuesday afternoon when the thing is happening and I am not in the room.
As a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, I help clients reach the nervous system directly and release what has been stored there.
Who you would be working with
There is no intake coordinator here, no associate you get handed to, and no waiting list you sit on while somebody decides where to file you. You call, I answer, and if we work together it is me in the room for as long as you need me there.
I spent six years inside Hazelden Betty Ford and Inter-Care before opening this practice, which means very little you tell me about addiction will be new. I trained as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner because the talking, on its own, kept leaving people short. I studied grief under David Kessler because I got tired of watching bereaved people be told there were five stages waiting for them in order.
My work is to give you a steady, safe place in a world that does not reliably provide one, and then to be honest with you inside it.
Jeremy Barnett
LMHC · SEP · CASAC · NY License 007963
More about my background and trainingIn their words
He isn’t afraid to challenge me or call me out when I start slipping into old behaviors. Most importantly it’s his empathy and non-judgmental attitude that have been instrumental in my therapy.
I can’t thank him enough for all the help and support he provided me during what was probably the most difficult time in my life.
He is non-judgmental, caring, and he really listens. He has challenged my thinking and helped me to take on new perspectives.
Getting started
The hardest part of therapy is the few minutes before the first phone call. Everything after that is easier than you are expecting.
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Thirty minutes on the phone, no charge. What has been going on, and roughly how long. You do not have to have the words for it yet.
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Whether I can help, what the work would involve, and exactly what it would cost. If I am not the right person, I say so and point you toward someone who is.
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Sessions run on HIPAA-compliant software from wherever you already feel safe. I see clients across Nassau, Suffolk, and the rest of New York State and New Jersey.
Areas served
The practice is based in Farmingdale and every session is held by secure video, so where you live only matters for one thing: being in New York or New Jersey during the session. These are the communities people most often search from.
Therapy for Nassau without the drive or the waiting room.
From the Nassau line to the East End, by secure video.
Licensed in both states, so anyone located in either one can be seen.
Insurance and fees
So it is worth settling early rather than letting it quietly talk you out of calling. These three plans are accepted in network.
Then I am out of network, and I charge a flat rate per session. I provide superbills, which are itemized receipts your insurer needs to reimburse you directly.
Plenty of plans cover a real share of out-of-network mental health care. Most people have never checked what theirs does, and the checking takes one phone call.
The rate itself depends on the kind of work, the length of the session, and how often we meet. You get the number on the free call, before you have agreed to anything.
Before you call
Yes. I accept Aetna, Oxford, and United Health. If your insurer is not on that list I am out of network, charge a flat rate per session, and provide superbills you can submit for reimbursement. The full picture, including what a superbill is, sits further down this page.
Yes. This is a telehealth-only practice serving adults anywhere in New York or New Jersey, by secure video or by phone, whichever you prefer. Sessions run on SimplePractice, which is HIPAA compliant.
You do not, yet, and neither do I. That is what the free thirty-minute call is for. We usually know within a session or two, and if I am not the right fit I will tell you and point you toward someone who is.
Most people who call have not. You do not need the right words, a diagnosis, or a clear account of what is wrong. Not knowing how to begin is a very ordinary way to begin.
Everything else people ask is on the FAQ page.
Barnett Counseling does not provide emergency or after-hours crisis care, and messages may not be seen right away. If you are in immediate danger, call 911. For free, confidential support at any hour, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, or text HOME to 741741. For substance use support, the SAMHSA National Helpline is 1-800-662-4357.
Almost everyone who books this had been putting it off, some of them for years. Nothing is expected of you on it.
Prefer to pick a time yourself? Use the contact page or the booking calendar. In an emergency, call 911.
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