About James
James Hagins is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 31 years of experience helping people through hard times. He focuses on common struggles like anxiety, grief, stress, career doubts, and low self-worth. He aims to make the first steps feel manageable and clear.
He uses straightforward conversation to understand what matters most to each person. Sessions often include looking at thoughts and behaviors, naming values, and trying small changes that add up.
Background and approach
He combines Client-Centered and cognitive approaches with longer-term exploration when it helps. James also brings attention to life transitions. That includes retirement adjustments, parenthood challenges, adoption and foster care issues, and the strain that can come from high-stress jobs like first responder roles.
He helps people sort priorities and rebuild routines after loss or big change. For those dealing with relationship difficulties, communication problems, or issues around trust and jealousy, he works on clearer expression and practical steps to reduce conflict. He helps people move through guilt, shame, and forgiveness at a pace they can manage.
His background supports work with hospice and end-of-life concerns, aging and geriatric issues, and coping after disasters. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with room for reflection and practical problem solving.
Approaches that fit online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the client's goals. The therapist creates a space for people to talk through what matters and decide on next steps, which helps when dealing with anxiety, grief, or life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. It uses practical exercises and small behavior changes to reduce worry and improve coping with stress and depression.
Existential Therapy invites people to consider meaning, values, and life purpose. It can be useful for career doubts, midlife questions, and decisions that feel overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, adjusting over time as needs change.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit work on anxiety, grief, or career concerns into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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