Every Tuesday
Conversations on complex trauma, healing, relationships, and the deeper work of therapy.
Hosted by Dr. Christopher Barker, Holding Space explores how unresolved trauma shapes daily life and how healing becomes possible through insight, compassion, and meaningful therapeutic work. The podcast is designed for people navigating their own healing as well as therapists and helping professionals who want to deepen their understanding of complex trauma and relational healing.
With Dr. Christopher Barker
Holding Space is a psychology podcast centered on complex trauma, emotional healing, attachment, nervous system responses, and the realities of therapeutic change. Episodes include thoughtful teaching, practical insights, and conversations that help listeners better understand themselves, their relationships, and the long-term impact of unresolved pain.
This podcast creates space for honest, grounded conversations about the inner work of recovery. It is a place for reflection, learning, and connection—for trauma survivors, clinicians, and anyone who wants to better understand the human experience through the lens of psychotherapy.
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Dr. Christopher Barker is a licensed psychologist and complex trauma specialist with more than 20 years of clinical experience. His work focuses on how early relational wounds, chronic stress, and unresolved trauma shape identity, emotional life, and relationships over time.
Drawing on advanced training and decades of clinical work, Dr. Barker brings a compassionate, thoughtful, and practical voice to conversations about healing. He is known for helping people understand not just what they are experiencing, but why those patterns developed and what it can look like to move toward greater safety, clarity, and emotional freedom.
Interested in having Dr. Barker as a guest speaker? Email Us!
Dr. Barker is open to guest interviews and collaborative conversations on the podcast. He welcomes thoughtful guests whose work connects with trauma recovery, psychotherapy, mental health, emotional healing, relationships, attachment, nervous system regulation, or professional growth for therapists and helping professionals. If you have a message, clinical perspective, personal story, or area of expertise that would serve the audience well, we’d love to hear from you. We are especially interested in guests who bring depth, clarity, and a trauma-informed approach to their work.
