About James
James Malone is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who helps people manage anxiety, stress, addictions, depression, and relationship strain. He brings 13 years of counseling experience and a steady, practical approach to sessions. He works with adults who are ready to face life changes or get unstuck from painful patterns.
He uses straightforward, conversational sessions where the focus is on what a person wants to change.
Background and approach
Conversations include learning simple skills for coping with overwhelming feelings. He also helps people understand patterns that keep them feeling stuck, like avoidance or self-criticism. James draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive-behavioral ideas, client-centered methods, existential thinking, and mindfulness practices.
He mixes these approaches to match each person's needs rather than sticking to one method. This helps him support issues such as trauma, substance use, ADHD, grief, and parenting stress. He trained in counseling and psychology at Troy University and has worked in a variety of settings with adults facing substance use and mental health challenges.
His experience includes working with trauma, OCD, bipolar conditions, and family-of-origin concerns. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. James encourages clients to notice small changes that add up over time.
He also supports people who want to explore spiritual values or a deeper sense of purpose as part of their healing.
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values. It can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and anger. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience, offering a supportive, nonjudgmental space to process feelings and build self-trust.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That might mean more skills practice in one phase and more values or meaning work in another.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a shorter check-in option, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain regular appointments and try different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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