In the ancient Greek tradition Nekyia was a communion with spirits, often initiated during a journey to the underworld to seek knowledge or wisdom. Nekyia reflects the understanding that healing can require descent into dark places and a revisiting of old ghosts. You need not go alone.
Dr Nicholas Barr launched Nekyia to deliver an integrated approach to wellbeing in mind, body, and spirit. This approach blends cutting edge evidence-based therapeutic techniques with insights derived from humanity’s wisdom traditions, from deep time to the present.
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Dr Barr is a tenured professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He holds a BA in religion from Columbia University, where he focused on Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and trained for 6 months at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala, India.
Later, as a Princeton in Asia fellow, Dr Barr worked in education and development in Laos before earning his MSW at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a clinical social worker for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health before completing his PhD at the University of Southern California.
Dr Barr has published extensively on topics including violence and traumatic illness, moral injury, mental health risk and protective factors, and mindfulness. He has over 15 years of clinical practice experience and is intensively trained in cognitive behavior therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and prolonged exposure for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Dr Barr has worked with a diverse array of high stress, high performance cohorts, including U.S. Military service members and State and local law enforcement. His research has been funded by the U.S. Army Research Office and the Cohen Veteran’s Clinic.
