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Aimee Barr, LCSW Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy practice specializing in helping those navigate their most challenging personal and professional life transitions. All are welcome!

Aimee Barr & Associates specializes in helping teens, adults and families navigate their most challenging life transitions. Our practice includes a group of seasoned mental health clinicians, who utilize a variety of individually-targeted clinical interventions to help clients move forward when they feel stuck. We believe that therapy should be action-oriented, interactive, and include understanding an individual’s psychological journey. One of the ways we reach this understanding is through exploring the impact of intergenerational trauma, culture, ethnicity, race, and gender identity upon development. In addition to extensive clinical training, clinicians are also experienced in practicing psychological astrology and will utilize this modality when appropriate.

11/20/2025

🌟This Scorpio new moon is bringing ALL the feelings to the surface. And by all, I mean even that resentment from 2019 you swore you’d released. Surprise! It’s back.

🌟Here’s the thing about healing: it doesn’t happen in the avoidance lane. We love to skip the feeling part—distracting ourselves, dumping our emotions on someone else, or thinking our way out of hurt. But feelings aren’t problems to solve; they’re waves to ride.

🌟When we push emotions down, they don’t disappear. They set up camp in our bodies and psyches, showing up later as anxiety, tension, or those patterns that keep us spinning. The good news? Feelings aren’t meant to last forever. They arise, peak, and pass—when we let them.
Scorpio season is asking us to get brave with our shadows and uncomfortable truths.

🌟Sometimes what’s good for us doesn’t feel good in the moment. But our future selves will thank us for getting to ground zero on our pain points. Your job isn’t to be controlled by your feelings or to perform emotional gymnastics. It’s to create space, acknowledge what’s there, let it move through you—and trust that’s where the real shifts happen.

🌟Ride the wave. 🌊✨

11/06/2025

🌟The energy of the full moon in Ta**us is here to remind us to be patient in our pursuit of quality. I know I’m guilty of wanting to move fast, see progress, and get it done yesterday (or better yet, last week). But I’m learning that there is a science to building. And step one of any endeavor needs to be getting back to the basics—yes, even the unglamorous ones.

🌟This beautiful and very potent full moon—happening a day after a monumental and highly historic election day—is tapping us on the shoulder and asking: before we work on thriving, let’s first ask, are the basics covered? That’s right. Are you, your neighbors, and community getting rest, having your voices and needs heard? Are you getting enough nutrients and taking care of wellness in all forms—financial, intellectual, spiritual, emotional, sexual? (Yes, all of them count.) Through remaining disciplined yet grounded in reality, we can release those practices that have us sprinting when we should be strolling.

🌟Ta**us energy wants us to slow down, to balance our opposing needs of stability and transformation. It’s a time to really look at and be of service to those very things you value the most. To be mindful of where you spend your time and your money—because both are precious, and neither should be wasted on things that drain you. Release anything that gets in the way of honoring your best and highest self. You deserve that. We all do.

10/27/2025

🌟One of the biggest astrological themes of this year? It’s asking us to look at where we’re still chasing perfection—and honestly, we might not love what we find.

🌟Here’s the thing: our world is far from perfect. Our inner world? A beautiful mess. The collective world? Well, let’s not even go there right now. But what we can do—what we’re absolutely capable of—is opening our hearts wider. To ourselves. To each other. To the whole imperfect, glorious disaster of being human.

🌟But here’s the plot twist: that relentless drive for perfection, that need to be exactly enough in all the ways we’ve imagined? That’s the very thing slamming our hearts shut. So many of us learned early on that when we became exactly what our family wanted, we finally got the good treatment. The approval. The “yes, that’s my kid” moment. But here’s what nobody tells you: good treatment isn’t the same as love. It’s just good treatment. It’s rewards and relief and maybe, if we’re lucky, a temporary feeling of being enough.

🌟Love doesn’t demand perfection—thank goodness, because we’d all be screwed. But it does ask for discipline, accountability, and self-awareness. And the only way to really practice love is to start with ourselves. Not the highlight reel version. Not the “I’ll love myself when I finally…” version. Just us. As we are. Right now.

🌟When we learn to love ourselves separate from our achievements and failures, something shifts. What we desperately need from other people? It gets quieter. Smaller. And suddenly, we’re free to come together and co-create from a place of wholeness instead of constantly scrambling to feel like we’re enough.

🌟That’s the work. And it’s worth it.

10/21/2025

🩷Our relationships are among life’s most profound teachers. Through those we’re drawn to, those we connect with, and yes—even those who trigger us—we discover the deepest truths about ourselves. This new moon in Libra arrives as a gentle yet powerful invitation to restore balance to the places within us that have tilted too far in one direction.
🩷There are sacred truths woven into the fabric of healing, and they shine especially bright under this lunation. The first: to heal a wound, we must be willing to touch it. During this new moon, you may feel the intensity of Pluto’s square and Chiron’s opposition—a cosmic pressure that asks you to feel deeply. Welcome any pain that surfaces as a guide leading you inward. Get curious. Go deeper. Remember that sometimes what upsets us on the surface is merely a doorway to something older, something truer, waiting to be understood. Let your pain become a detective, helping you find your way back to equilibrium.
The second truth is this: our healing work in this lifetime is always, ultimately, our own. We cannot fix or change another soul, and we cannot return to those who wounded us expecting them to become our healers. Allow this lunation to gently illuminate where codependency and people-pleasing may have taken root in your heart. It’s time to write a new story—one where you are self-determined, whole, and in harmony with yourself. As tempting as it may be to look outward, keep returning your gaze inward. Let any triggers or recurring patterns in your relationships become mirrors, reflecting back the very things you’re here to heal within yourself. ♎️⚖️

10/06/2025

🌟It takes courage to be the first. Sometimes we’re the first to volunteer and share our story. Other times we are the first to confront intergenerational family trauma (thanks for the heirlooms, great-great-grandpa). Sometimes we’re the first to say “I love you,” and other times we’re the first to say, “I need to end this relationship, contract, partnership, or friendship.”

🌟During this Full Moon in Aries, our courage is being summoned to take the first step in a larger battle. So much of our life experience has us focusing on the external: what was done to us, who harmed us, and who we choose to love and fight for. But this lunation? It’s got us turning inward to examine our own relationship to ourselves, the cycles we keep hitting replay on (repetition compulsion is just trauma’s greatest hits album), and where we need to be brave enough to say: no more, this ends now with me.

🌟Letting go and releasing is essential before charging ahead. Maybe you need to release people-pleasing, retire from your unpaid position as everyone’s hero, or finally let go of patterns—and maybe even people—no longer aligned with your values or vision. Look inward during this full moon and first settle any war you’re fighting from within. Once that fire is tamed (not extinguished, just no longer burning down your own house), jump into action. Engage fully in the present and recognize that meaningful new beginnings often happen only after we’re strong enough to accept reality as it is right now—not as we wish it were, not as it used to be, but as it actually is. ♈️ ♎️

10/03/2025

What I’ve Witnessed Lately

If the world had a blender setting called “chaos mode”—we’re in it. Fear and terror show up uninvited.
But here’s what else I’ve witnessed, the stuff that makes my heart do that weird squeeze thing:
✨ A close friend became a foster parent because love isn’t just a feeling—sometimes it’s bunk beds and bedtime stories for kids who desperately need both.
✨ People are still falling in love, looking at this bonkers world and saying, “You know what? I choose you anyway.”
✨ Babies are being born, completely oblivious to the news cycle, ready to laugh at peek-a-boo and remind us what pure joy looks like.
✨ Many therapists are offering pro bono sessions because healing shouldn’t be a luxury, and some superheroes wear cardigans instead of capes.
✨ People are healing—emotionally, physically, spiritually—doing the hard, unglamorous work of putting themselves back together, one breath at a time.
✨ I’ve watched estranged people finally forgive each other. Pride got shoved aside. Bridges got rebuilt. Not pretty, but real.
✨ Every day, people fight to be happier, braver, better. Not Instagram-perfect, but in the messy, stumbling, “I showed up today even though I didn’t want to” way.
✨ And the sunsets? Still stunning. The sky didn’t get the memo about our collective madness.
Here’s the truth they don’t put on motivational posters:
Love doesn’t cancel out pain. They’re awkward roommates who coexist and bump into each other at 3 AM.
But when we make space for love—when we let it pull up a chair next to our grief and fear—something shifts. We start to make sense of the madness. We find courage to act. We remember who we want to be, even when the world begs us to harden or give up.
Love doesn’t erase the hard stuff.
But it gives us a reason to keep going.
And honestly? That’s everything. ✨

09/28/2025

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09/21/2025

✨ Today we witness something important —like settling into theater seats as the story begins. Eclipse energy dissolves into our lives like medicine in water, already flowing through us. This isn’t a single day’s event, but a transformative current shaping the year ahead.
🌟 Solar eclipses occurring on new moons bring fresh beginnings, but this one sits on the South Node at 29 degrees in Virgo—a critical degree where endings and beginnings converge. The South Node asks us to reckon with our past.
🗣️ Freedom of speech takes center stage. We’re called to remember those silenced throughout history, to honor their stories, and understand how their experiences shape our present day. Time to examine the narratives we tell ourselves or have told ourselves about our world.
💫 This energy won’t comfort us—it will however transform us. True healing emerges when we feel deeply, are radically honest and take accountability. This eclipse asks us to seek out silenced voices within ourselves and our community. The Virgo energy is pushing us to learn from those who have been consistently silenced, marginalized and/or overlooked.
🔍 The gift: When we listen deeper, are mindful over where we go to learn, see our responsibility clearly, and commit to change. Turn inward. Let any turmoil become your teacher. We’re capable of so much more.
🌱 The path forward: Truth-telling, listening, sitting with complexity and discomfort and then being courageous. From this foundation, transformation becomes possible. And that’s the beauty of eclipses, they guide us in expanding beyond the here and now.

09/19/2025

🩷The world feels extra heavy with fear and devastation these days—so much so that taking regular breaks from my phone has become an essential part of my wellness routine. Yet within all of this heaviness, my heart feels genuinely full as I dive deeper into learning about healing.
🩷I have been outside of Chicago this week at the Internal Family Systems Conference. Hundreds of clinicians from all over are here exploring not just our individual healing, but our collective and ancestral healing too. Being part of this community that’s truly committed to understanding and connecting with all aspects of who we are doesn’t just give me hope—it fills me with inspiration.
🩷I feel deeply grateful to be with those committed to building a different kind of world. We owe it to ourselves to explore all parts of who we are. In doing so, our lives will continue to unfold in meaningful ways.

09/06/2025

There’s something deeply sacred about the way rain whispers its arrival just before a lunar eclipse—as if the heavens themselves are preparing us for transformation. Writing this on the eve of our celestial dance, I can feel the electric anticipation: emotions rising like ocean tides, hearts preparing to open wider than before. 💫

This magnificent full moon lunar eclipse extends a loving invitation to examine the sacred art of caring—for our spirits, our bodies, and the beautiful intersection where they meet. The gentle Pisces/Virgo axis calls us home to ourselves, asking: How do we tend to our whole being?

🌟 This eclipse energy arrives as a wise teacher, illuminating the patterns of care we’ve woven. It’s here to show us what serves our highest good and what might be ready for loving release.
🌟 Yes, eclipses can feel sudden—like lightning that reveals the landscape in a flash of clarity. This one brings the gift of completion, creating space for something new to bloom. Sometimes we need these divine interruptions to clear the garden of our lives.
🌟 The south node in Virgo whispers a gentle warning: beware painting your experiences in stark shades of “good” or “bad.” This rigid thinking builds walls where bridges could be. Instead, let curiosity be your compass—exploration over judgment.

Want to work with this energy personally?
Look where you hold 10-25° of mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces). Also glance back to September 2006—similar themes may resurface like old friends returning with new wisdom.

This is your invitation to radical honesty—not the harsh kind that wounds, but the courageous kind that heals. Choose growth over grief, possibility over patterns that no longer fit.

Let this eclipse be your teacher, your liberator, your guide back home to yourself. 🏡💖

08/23/2025

🌟Where are you ready to grow? What rituals or practices bring you wellness, peace and support? Those with significant Virgo energy are releasing a lot this year as the South Node is visiting the sign of Virgo and helping all of us—but mutable signs in particular (that’s you Pisces, Virgo, Sagittarius, Gemini)—to refine past patterns, upgrade old internal dialogues and release anything limiting us from growth. Think of it as Marie Kondo-ing your wellness closet.

🌟I look at Virgo season similar to harvest season. During this time it’s a beautiful practice to have yourself and parts of your life open to review. However, during this harvest we want to lean into this period of refinement and review with curiosity and an openness to learning versus leaning into criticism and righteousness. It truly is so hard to give up being right, especially when you know you are! (Trust me, your ego has receipts.) But your future self and relationships will thank you for heartfelt curiosity over jumping into a verbal sparring match.

🌟Virgo energy likes to organize and be of practical service to others. This new moon can almost feel like a Mercury retrograde with the square from Uranus in Gemini. So part of you wants to go, go, go and another part may say, “Can we slow down and make sure we know what we’re doing first?” Instead of deciding who’s right, give both parts of you (or another) permission to speak and be heard. It’s like having a board meeting with yourself—minus the stale donuts, plus actual self-compassion. This new moon is all about being heard, being healthy and wanting to grow and be better. It all starts with self evaluation of your old patterns. While our the known and familiar can feel cozy like your favorite worn-out sweatshirt, grasping go the past won’t allow you to flourish, grow and truly be of service in the ways you are committed to .

08/09/2025

🌟Hello online community! Look up—no, not at your phone notifications—at the actual sky! Tonight we’re blessed with a full moon in Aquarius, which basically means the universe is asking us to play advanced-level emotional Twister.

🌟Full moons are like cosmic training wheels for holding contradictions. It’s that delightful mental gymnastics where two completely opposing thoughts can both be true simultaneously. Think of it as the universe’s way of saying, “Plot twist!” This particular opposition has us examining the eternal struggle between “I need my space to be fully me ” and “please don’t leave me alone with my thoughts.” Our mission, should we choose to accept it (and honestly, the moon doesn’t really give us a choice), is to acknowledge ALL our parts—even the ones we’d rather hide in the cosmic closet. We’re being challenged to remember that we’re each more complex than our LinkedIn profiles suggest.

🌟This lunar moment is perfect for mastering the art of balance between “I don’t need anyone” independence and “I’ll do anything for love” devotion. Think less dramatic rom-com, more healthy relationship goals. We’re invited to redraw our boundaries with a cosmic eraser, ditch the codependency handbook, and do the enough inner work in order to have our egos recognize, “Okay, maybe this isn’t all about me.”

🌟Here’s the plot twist: to truly shine during this lunation, we need to embrace the radical idea that everyone winning is actually better than being the sole victor in a game no one else wanted to play. Revolutionary concept, right? The new mantra: “Drop the ego, embrace the we-go.”

🌟As you honor all your glorious contradictions, don’t be afraid to get a little weird with it. Sometimes the status quo needs a good cosmic shake-up to make room for a future that’s actually different from our past reruns. After all, normal is overrated anyway. ♒️ ♌️

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