Dr Deborah Barry is a therapist working in Westboro.  She brings a wealth of training and experience to her practice.  The modalities she draws on include EFT, psychology and psychiatry, cognitive behaviour therapy, law of attraction, and her quest to bring joy into her clients' lives.

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is one of the meridian energy techniques that springs from acupuncture.  Basically, the idea is that we develop an energy path that holds a negative thought.  By tapping on the acupuncture meridians while discussing the disturbing thought, the thought is disempowered.  Deborah uses this technique to dissolve clients' experience of being stuck in unhelpful patterns.

Deborah uses the metaphor "polishing the stone."  Using her finely-tuned skills of observation, she discovers areas that make a client come alive.  Together they develop those positive areas, so that the client rebuilds positive energy, optimism, and confidence.  As the stone is polished, the mud surrounding it begins to flake away - no longer firmly adherent to the client's persona.