About Me

Barbara Bryn Klare (she/her)

I love it when clients call me Cool Aunt. It must be my decades of lived experience: long-term partnering, marriage/divorce, single parenting, co-parenting, job and career moves, financial ups and downs, keeping up with an art career.

Cool Aunt Harper Barbara Bryn Klare — Harper

Lifelong dancer and big lover of (big) dogs.

My practice is a love letter to staying present, to joy and love and laughter and healing, and to leaving the world a better place for having lived in it.

Cool Aunt Art Barbara Bryn Klare — From a client

Background

Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) # C.2607872 (Ohio)

M.Ed. Clinical Mental Health Counseling — Lindsey Wilson University
M.A. Fine Art — University for the Creative Arts, UK
B.A. Geology + Art/Art History — Oberlin College

Couples, Families and Mediation-Informed Therapy

Gottman Level I Training (Couples Therapy) — Gottman Institute
Mediation Training — Athens Area Mediation Service (AAMS)
Additional training in Strategic/Structured Family Therapy, Attachment Theory, Discernment

Creative and Artistic Practice (more on my Creative Process page →)

International Artist — website: barbarabrynklare.com
Creative collaborations, installations, and social practice — WHERE Were You Harassed?
Exensive exploration of cultural awareness/appropriation, sustainability, and repair

Behavioral Mental Health

Community Mental Health — Path Behavioral Care
Text Peer Support (5 years) — 7 Cups of Tea
Additional training on trauma, addiction, depression, and anxiety

Real-World Career and Personal Finance Training

Volunteer — Empower Work
Personal Finance columnist (examiner.com SF), Personal Financial Planning Certificate — UCLA
40+ years of professional and managerial experience in tech, financial, and creative fields

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Being an artist shapes how I see and engage. Making art has taught me that repair and transformation are possible. If you’re curious about ways to re-boot your creativity, let’s talk →

Let’s Work on Things Together

*Therapy services provided under the supervision of wonderful M. M. (Missy) Trzeciak-Kerr, PhD, LMHC, License #E.2504984-SUPV