About James
James Farley helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, addictions, and relationship or intimacy concerns. He offers straightforward, calm support for trouble sleeping, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, career transitions, and coping with major life changes. James emphasizes practical steps and clear goals during sessions.
He works from a problem-solving stance that still respects each person’s story. Sessions often include short skill-building exercises and focused conversation. The aim is to make daily life more manageable and reduce the overwhelm that brought someone to therapy.
Background and approach
James draws on methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that limit them. He also uses existential ideas to surface values and meaning, and hypnotherapy when appropriate to support deeper habit change. He brings ten years of professional experience and holds a Licensed Professional Counselor license in Texas.
That experience includes supporting people through addiction, caregiving stress, codependency, and trauma-related concerns. His approach is practical and personable rather than theoretical. In the first meetings James focuses on what matters most to the person in front of him.
Together they set short-term goals and choose techniques that fit day-to-day life. He prefers clear next steps so progress feels tangible. People who choose James can expect direct talk, some homework tasks, and steady guidance toward clearer choices.
He centers each session on the client’s goals and adjusts methods as those goals change.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
James commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. He also integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness for people who struggle with intense reactions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. James will work with each person to clarify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods over time based on what helps most. He values short-term goals and practical exercises so progress is clear and measurable.
Online therapy with James is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow more direct interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is useful for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching-style support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English