About James
James Wells is a licensed professional counselor who helps adults who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, ADHD, or tough life changes. He works with people facing relationship strain, addiction concerns, grief, identity questions, and career or parenting stress. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth, aimed at finding clearer routines and calmer responses to daily demands.
He uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. Conversations explore thoughts, feelings, and behavior patterns, then identify small, manageable steps to try between sessions.
Background and approach
James pays attention to how past attachment patterns affect current relationships and communication. Clients often work on emotion regulation skills, problem-solving for work and family pressures, and ways to reduce impulsive reactions. He supports people dealing with burnout, compassion fatigue, and mood disorders while helping them set realistic goals for change.
The focus is on useful tools that fit into real life. James holds the LPC credential, and he practices in Alabama while also serving people across state lines. He provides services in English and accepts international clients through online formats.
His approach is inclusive and nonjudgmental, with attention to diverse identities and experiences. In sessions he aims for clear pacing and doable homework so progress feels steady. People who prefer a conversational, practical therapist often find his style a good match.
If someone wants support sorting out attention struggles, relationship patterns, or managing stress, he offers straightforward guidance and collaborative planning.
Approach-driven care delivered online
James often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and choose values-based actions instead of getting stuck in struggle. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and motivation challenges because it focuses on small, actionable shifts in behavior.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try out alternative responses. CBT is practical and problem-focused, which helps with mood, anxiety, and attention-related difficulties by teaching new thinking and behavior habits.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. James works together with clients to weigh goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. That collaborative process shapes which methods are emphasized and what practical exercises are assigned between sessions.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat allows brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection and quick updates between appointments. These options help people keep continuity of care despite travel, work schedules, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Georgia
- Languages
- English
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