About James
James McFeely is a licensed professional counselor based in Virginia who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and low self-esteem. He focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier and clearer. He works with people facing big life changes and offers straightforward guidance for coping and problem solving.
With three years of experience, he draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address emotional pain and patterns that keep clients stuck.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior, building coping skills, and improving communication. The tone in sessions is direct but empathetic, with clear goals and simple homework when it helps. James has experience helping people who struggle with abandonment worries, attachment issues, and personality-related challenges such as avoidant or dependent patterns.
He also supports those dealing with chronic pain, illness, addiction, dissociation, and the emotional fallout of separation or divorce. These topics are explored in ways that connect symptoms to everyday routines and choices. People who come to him for help with mood concerns like depression or disruptive mood dysregulation are offered strategies for mood regulation and activity planning.
For anxiety and obsessive patterns, sessions emphasize skills that reduce distress and increase functioning. Communication problems and codependency receive attention through practical role-play and boundary work. Sessions are conducted in English and James can work with international clients.
He uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Approaches that guide online therapy
James uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that aim for practical change. One approach focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression; it teaches concrete skills people can use in daily life. Another approach centers on building coping and emotion-regulation skills to manage strong feelings, which is helpful for mood swings, dissociation, and stress-related reactions.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, symptoms, and preferences, then try methods that fit. Progress is checked together and methods are adjusted when needed so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility and a range of ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English