Mr. Bar Bukas, MA, JD, LPC

Mr. Bar Bukas, MA, JD, LPC

Verified Credentials

  • Profession(s):

    Counseling Psychology, Marriage & Family Therapy, Mental Health Counseling

  • License Status:

    I'm a licensed professional.

  • Primary License:

    LPC - 701002910

 
My Approach to Helping
I use a comprehensive theoretical approach emphasizing cognitive theory which demonstrates effectiveness with depression, anxiety, anger management, and couples counseling. Areas of specialty: anger management and couples counseling, including for those who have determined that divorce is likely. My "therapeutic mediation" helps couples reduce the suffering and provides co-parenting counseling. I use an eclectic theoretical approach emphasizing cognitive theory which demonstrates effectiveness with depression, anxiety, anger management, and couples counseling. Areas of specialty: anger management and couples counseling, particularly for those who have determined that divorce is likely. My "therapeutic mediation" helps couples reduce the suffering and provide co- My practice takes a 180 degree look at the presenting problem that strives to address the entire working solution. Each person present plays roles in the problem and solutions. I work to help each person grow into the best they can toward creating the solution.

 

More Info About My Practice
I work with each person that I come into contact with to ensure that we have both come away better for the experience. Each time I ask my client to think, I am asked to think myself, to put myself into a new situation that I would potentially otherwise not do. I am not always comfortable with that reality, just as my clients are not. But I know that ultimately I will be glad to have had the adventure.
Services I Provide
  • Individual Therapy & Counseling
  • Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
  • Family Therapy
  • Group Therapy
  • Mediation
  • Coaching
  • Consultation
  • Clinical Supervision
Ages I Work With
  • Children
  • Teens
  • Adults
  • Elders
Languages I Speak
  • English
Groups I Work With
Marriage Mediation
Therapy Approaches I Use
  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
  • Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
  • Adlerian Psychotherapy
  • Anger Management
  • Body Psychotherapy
  • Breathwork
  • Client-Directed Outcome-Informed Therapy
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy /REBT
  • Constructivisim
  • Contemplative Psychotherapy
  • Continuum
  • Control Mastery Theory
  • Core Energetics
  • Core Process Psychotherapy
  • Critical Incidence Stress Debriefing
  • Depth Hypnosis
  • Depth Therapy
  • Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy
  • Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy
  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
  • Emotion Focused Couples Therapy
  • Emotional Transformation Therapy
  • Existential Psychotherapy
  • Family Systems Therapy
  • Gestalt Therapy
  • Humanistic Psychology
  • Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Interpersonal Psychotherapy
  • Journey Therapy
  • Jungian Psychotherapy
  • Mindfulness Based Approaches
  • Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
  • Motivational Enhancement Therapy
  • Non-Violent Communication
  • Object Relations
  • Parent Work
  • Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
  • Person Centered / Rogerian
  • Play Therapy
  • Positive Psychology
  • Positive Psychotherapy
  • Possibility Therapy
  • Process Oriented Psychology
  • Psychodynamic
  • Psychomotor
  • Relational Psychotherapy
  • Relationship Enhancement Therapy
  • Self Acceptance Training
  • Self Psychology
  • Self Relations
  • Transpersonal Psychotherapy
  • Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Locations & Maps

Office 1:
100 North Washinton St. Suite 238
Falls Church, VA 22046 United States
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Concerns & Issues I Help With
  • Identity Issues
  • Attachment
  • Reproduction
  • Abuse: Emotional, Physical, or Sexual
  • Trauma
  • Occupational & Academic Issues
  • Addictions & Compulsions
  • Life Changes
  • Childhood & Adolescence
  • Family Problems
  • Social Skills & Problems
  • Health & Body
  • Anxiety, Fear, & Stress
  • Emotion Management
  • Depression & Mood
  • Relationships & Marriage
  • Self-Esteem & Confidence
  • Spirituality
  • Sexuality
  • Self-Harm & Suicide