Dr. James Young
Compassionate, practical support for family and life challenges
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About James
Dr. James Young is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida with nine years of clinical experience. He focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma, mood concerns, and motivation.
He also helps people with attention and focus struggles and offers support around parenting and family matters. He aims to make the first visit feel straightforward and welcoming. He creates a space where people can name what worries them.
He listens without judgment and works at the client’s pace.
Background and approach
In sessions he draws on practical strategies to improve day-to-day functioning. He uses clear tools to manage stress and anxiety and to build self-esteem. For attention and focus concerns he offers approaches aimed at improving concentration and routine.
He brings specific experience supporting people in the LGBT community, helping individuals and families navigate identity-related challenges. He is also familiar with addiction, grief, and relationship difficulties, and works with clients toward realistic goals. Parents looking for help around coaching, parenting stress, or family problems will find straightforward guidance and concrete steps.
His manner is direct but compassionate, focused on what can change now and next. Dr. Young’s practice combines proven techniques and a calm, encouraging presence.
He partners with clients to set clear goals and track small wins over time.
Approaches that guide online family and life work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the client’s lead, offers reflection, and helps people find their own solutions to stress, family issues, and identity questions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses simple, structured steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and problems with motivation or focus by teaching practical skills to use between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and change patterns in important relationships. It can be useful for improving emotional connection and handling conflict within families and partnerships.
Finding the right approach happens together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. From there he will recommend one or a mix of approaches and check in regularly to adjust the plan.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules and to continue work between appointments. Many people find the variety helpful for tracking progress and staying connected on the days when a full video session is difficult.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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