BREAK THE REPEATING CYCLE
Sexual Integrity
For pornography use, sexual compulsions, secrecy, repeated relapse, and the relational damage surrounding them.
Explore Sexual Behavior →Solutions Focused Counseling
When you want results.
Counseling for EMDR, sexual integrity, specific goals, and faith-integrated work. The work is structured for meaningful movement in months—not open-ended therapy for years.
Brian Bachman, MA, LPC
St. Louis + Missouri telehealth
Private pay · $275 / 50 minutes
01Specific goal
A defined change you want to make—not indefinite symptom management.
02High functioning
You are functioning well day to day and want focused work on a specific issue.
03Results-oriented
You want meaningful movement in months—not an open-ended process measured in years.
A deliberately narrow practice
Three specialties. Specific goals.
The practice is designed for motivated adults who can name what they want to work on. It is not built around diagnosis, medication, crisis stabilization, or broad ongoing treatment for depression and generalized anxiety.
PROCESS WHAT LINGERS
EMDR
For specific memories, adverse experiences, relational injury, and body-level responses that remain active despite insight.
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WORK ON A DEFINED GOAL
Focused Growth
For repeated relational dynamics, conflict avoidance, family-of-origin patterns, self-defeating choices, and difficult transitions that need more than advice.
Explore Growth Goals →Have a specific goal in mind?
Request ConsultA focused practice
Specialized & solutions-focused.
The work is built around specific goals, honest self-examination, and practical change—not indefinite support without a direction.
Likely a fit
- A specific EMDR target or unresolved experience
- Faith, spiritual formation, doubt, deconstruction, or experiences—including spiritual abuse—you want to process
- Pornography or compulsive sexual behavior
- A recurring personal or relational pattern
- High functioning day to day with a concrete goal
- Willingness to work directly and practice between sessions
Not the right practice
- Primary treatment for depression or generalized anxiety
- Medication, diagnosis, disability documentation, or insurance care
- Crisis support, acute instability, detox, or intensive treatment
- Open-ended supportive therapy without a defined target
- Primarily seeking recurring validation or a place to vent without examining your own patterns, choices, and agency
Process with direction
Insight matters. Movement matters too.
Sessions are not designed to become a recurring report on how you felt. We identify the mechanism beneath the problem, assess what needs processing, and translate insight into concrete changes.
The work may include EMDR, trauma-informed processing, pattern mapping, behavioral experiments, relationship analysis, psychoeducation, and direct feedback. The method follows the problem—not a generic therapy script.
How the work is structured
Faith & spiritual formation
Process what is holding your faith back.
For Christian clients who want it, counseling can include spiritual formation, wrestling with or anger at God, productive deconstruction, shame, doubt, or experiences—including spiritual abuse—that have complicated faith. The goal is an honest, integrated, life-giving faith rather than forced certainty or spiritual performance.
Explore faith & formation →Truly Confidential.
No diagnosis
No third parties
No Insurance Exposure
The counselor
Experienced enough to see beneath the pattern.
Brian Bachman is a Missouri Licensed Professional Counselor with more than a decade of clinical experience. His work integrates EMDR, behavioral analysis, whole-person formulation, trauma-informed care, and practical change.
Brian is a Christian and is comfortable integrating faith directly when that is part of your goal. Clients are not required to share his beliefs.
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Practical details
Private, straightforward, and structured.
Session50 minutes
Rate$275
InsuranceNot accepted or billed
FormatIn-person · Missouri telehealth · Limited on-site appointments
On-site optionAppropriate St. Louis public or professional office · $375 / 50 minutes
FrequencyUsually biweekly or monthly
Private-pay counseling across St. Louis
One Ballwin office. Focused work for clients across the region.
New Pathways serves adults throughout the St. Louis area through the Ballwin office, Missouri telehealth, and limited on-site appointments at an appropriate public or professional office. These pages explain the practical differences for several communities without implying additional office locations.
Central corridor
Ladue, Frontenac & Town and Country
Private-pay counseling with an emphasis on discretion, defined goals, and a structure that respects demanding personal and professional responsibilities.
Counseling for these communities →Professional center
Clayton
Focused counseling for attorneys, finance and corporate professionals, owners, and other adults balancing private concerns with visible responsibilities.
Counseling for Clayton clients →Closest regional fit
Chesterfield & West County
Convenient access to the Ballwin office for clients seeking EMDR, compulsive sexual behavior counseling, specific growth goals, or faith-integrated work.
Counseling in West County →Flexible access
Wildwood & St. Albans
Missouri telehealth and limited on-site options can reduce travel when privacy, schedule, or distance makes a conventional weekly office visit impractical.
Counseling for western communities →Start with the private-pay counseling in St. Louis overview for services, rates, fit, and access across the region.
Before scheduling
Let’s compare goals.
A 20-minute consultation is a quick way to compare goals, ask questions, and decide whether this focused approach matches what you want.
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