Damon G. LaBarbera, PhD

Email is the fastest and best way to get hold of me. Send your messages to Dglabarbera@gmail.com. Phone is checked regularly but return calls typically take a day or more. Also, for more pressing matters, can text to 850-630-6624.

Many in my family have gone into medicine or mental health. A parent was a physician who graduated Cornell and then Columbia Med, school. My Uncle went to Princeton than to Columbia Med school and worked on Long Island for many years. A sibling has been on the faculty of psychology and psychiatr...

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Hours were updated.

Medicare allows regular telephone therapy sessions.

Though my address lists Panama City, I provide therapy for all of Florida, and (because of recent rule changes) many other states. I accept Medicare, cigna, aetna, United Healthcare, Tricare and other insurances. Before a patient schedules I will discuss whether this is a good fit, if someone els...

Teletherapy for clients in Florida, and, by arrangement, other states in the United States during the covid crisis.

Clients wrestling with problems associated with later life might well do best with a seasoned therapist. Such issues may include retirement, spousal bereavement, maintaining health, adult children, the strains regarding estate and probate, and transitioning assets. Other issues seen with older ...