Lara Barbir PsyD

Lara Barbir, PsyD, PMH-C is a clinical psychologist, speaker, and founder of Transcendent Therapy, a private practice based in California. She also serves as faculty at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

Through her clinical work, teaching, writing, and speaking, Dr. Barbir is on a mission to help individuals heal unresolved emotional patterns and create more emotionally secure future generations. Her work focuses on reparenting, nervous system regulation, and understanding depression through a trauma-informed lens.

She specializes in working with high-functioning adults navigating depression, complex trauma (PTSD), anxiety, insomnia, and chronic pain, particularly during the peri- and postnatal periods, integrating approaches such as EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) and interpersonal psychotherapy.

Prior to founding her private practice, she spent over six years working within the VA healthcare system alongside interdisciplinary medical teams.

Dr. Barbir earned her doctorate in counseling psychology from Radford University in Virginia and is the creator of a reparenting-based framework designed to help individuals move from survival mode into emotional security.