About James
James Coley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. He brings a calm, respectful presence to sessions and focuses on practical steps clients can use between meetings. He uses straightforward conversation to understand what’s hardest right now and what the client wants to change.
Sessions often begin with simple goals and small, doable actions. James emphasizes listening first, then offers tools from several therapy styles that fit each person's needs.
Background and approach
James draws on cognitive behavioral approaches to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try different responses. He also uses client-centered methods to follow the client’s lead and build on their personal strengths. When emotions feel intense, he may introduce skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help regulate feelings and improve coping.
He has worked with concerns including addiction, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, and matters related to LGBT identity. James also supports people facing family of origin issues, adoption and foster care topics, and the emotional impact of chronic illness such as cancer and HIV/AIDS.
With four years of practice as an LPC in Texas, James aims to create a collaborative, down-to-earth space. He encourages realistic steps, regular check-ins on progress, and adjustments as needs change.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following the client's agenda to help them find what matters. Online sessions let the therapist and client talk through goals and try new ways of coping while keeping the client's priorities central.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is about identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes. In remote sessions a therapist can assign brief exercises, review progress over video or text, and help people practice new skills between meetings.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) provides concrete emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for intense feelings. These skills can be taught in short video or phone sessions and reinforced with live chat or messaging for quick check-ins when participants need reminders.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. Choices can shift over time as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be an easier option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These formats help fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this therapist 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
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