Joshua Burg, PsyD

About My Approach:

I believe that we are all striving to be our best selves, even when it seems like we’re stuck in life, or causing ourselves or others pain. My therapeutic approach is grounded in this belief, as well as the belief that forming a collaborative and trusting relationship is the foundation for any good treatment. Understanding together the reasons and context for why you engage in a particular behavior or feel a certain way can help begin to move you towards the ability to change. I also believe having a space where therapist and patient work together to hold the painful emotions we all carry around with us can be powerfully healing over time. I often tell my patients that therapy should be a space where you can develop a sense of freedom to speak about whatever is on your mind or in your heart. The therapy space is here for us to work together no matter what we talk about to help you heal and discover yourself.

I ground my treatment approach in several psychological theories, but most foundationally I operate from a self psychological treatment perspective. I find this theory speaks to my belief that we all are striving towards health in the best way we know how. Sometimes we just need some help and understanding to discover a better way of reaching the health and life we hope to achieve.

Education and Specialties:

I earned my Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Denver in 2017, and my Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Denver in 2014.

I specialize and focus my practice on adult individual psychotherapy with adults and adolescents. While I work with a wide range of presenting issues, I've included some of my main areas of interest below:

Psychotherapy - Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, Bipolar Disorders, Self-Esteem issues, Psychosis, and Relationship/Intimacy problems.

Contact Me:

720-588-0454
DrJoshuaBurg@gmail.com

Publications:

Burg, J. (2023). Intersubjectivity: Intersubjective systems theory. In Bernd Huppertz (Eds.), Underlying assumptions in psychoanalytic schools: A comparative perspective (pp. 185-193). Routledge.

Burg, J. (2022). Never stop learning: A review of “making sense together,” 2nd edition. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 17(2): 233-236.

Burg, J. (2018). A therapist’s fallibilism and the hermeneutics of trust. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 13(3): 272-287.

Burg, C., Burg, J., Long, S., Melowsky, J., Pasternak, T., Rascon, C., ... Walters, C. (2017). Key factors of internship burnout and possible solutions. Psychotherapy Bulletin, 52(3): 16-20.