About James
James Coley is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and relationship concerns. He focuses on practical steps and steady support to help people move toward clearer goals. James brings four years of counseling experience and a calm, respectful style to each session.
He uses a client-centered approach that begins by listening to what matters most to the person in front of him. Sessions often look like focused conversation about patterns, choices, and small changes that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. When emotion runs high, skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy can help people regulate strong feelings and manage conflict more effectively. For relationship concerns James draws on principles from the Gottman Method to improve communication and repair trust.
He adapts methods to fit each person rather than applying a single formula. James also works with issues tied to identity and sexuality, including LGBT and gender dysphoria related concerns, and with areas such as adoption and foster care, blended family issues, and intimacy-related topics. He addresses both immediate problems and longer-term patterns that keep people stuck.
Sessions are offered in English and provided online by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. James practices in Texas as an LPC and uses a collaborative process to set goals and measure progress with each person.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
James draws on Client-Centered Therapy to prioritize each person's goals and values, creating space to be heard and understood. This approach helps clarify what matters most and guides which steps to try next.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often involves simple exercises and small experiments that can reduce anxiety, manage depression, and improve daily routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. James will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and preferences, and he adjusts the plan as progress is made. The aim is to match techniques to goals rather than expecting one method to fix everything.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can support shorter check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These options provide flexibility so people can choose the format that best supports their goals and daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English