About James
James Greenwald is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, depression, and life changes. He also supports people dealing with addictions, grief, intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, ADHD, and LGBTQ-related issues. James writes plainly and focuses on practical next steps for everyday struggles.
He keeps sessions centered on the client’s real-life problems. He listens first, then works with people to build tools they can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Expect straightforward talk, skill practice, and steps you can try right away. Sessions combine empathy with clear, usable strategies. James uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, narrative approaches, mindfulness, and client-centered methods.
That mix helps address ongoing patterns like avoidance, codependency, impulsivity, and problems tied to family of origin. He uses story and values work to help people clarify purpose and direction. His background includes counseling in independent practice, hospitals, schools, crisis settings, and correctional environments.
That variety informs how he handles sudden life events and long-term struggles. James draws on six years of experience working with many different life situations. Therapy with him focuses on building small, reliable changes.
He helps people learn to name difficult feelings, reduce unhelpful patterns, and set goals that matter. Conversations move at a pace set by each person, with a practical emphasis on what improves daily life.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward what matters. It focuses on accepting difficult thoughts while choosing actions that match personal goals, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life direction. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills. Those concrete skills work well in brief practice exercises and coaching between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy to help people feel understood and to build self-awareness and self-acceptance.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, test methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process where the person and therapist choose what fits needs and preferences together.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and role play. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text make brief check-ins and ongoing coaching easier to fit into a busy day. These options let people work on skills and track progress without needing to travel.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English