James Wells
Insightful, practical support for adults
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Alabama, Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About James
James Wells is a licensed professional counselor who aims to help people handle stressful life moments and tricky emotions. He offers calm, straightforward support for concerns like anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, and issues around identity and intimacy. Sessions are offered in English and he works with clients across Alabama, and also accepts international clients.
In the therapy room he keeps things practical and people-centered. He listens to what matters most, then helps set clear goals and small steps to reach them.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on improving day-to-day coping, managing strong feelings, and repairing communication patterns. He draws on proven methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based practices to change unhelpful thoughts and build healthier habits. Attachment ideas inform work around connection and trust.
He also uses client-centered principles to keep the process grounded in each person’s values and pace. James has three years of clinical experience and holds an LPC credential. The license details include AL LPC LPC02948 and GA LPC LPC006697.
He blends learning from different approaches to match what a person actually needs in their life. Practical matters are handled simply: sessions can occur by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging under a subscription plan that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair a person with the right schedule and format.
Approaches that guide online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and clarifies personal values to guide action. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with practical exercises. It is commonly used for anxiety, mood concerns, and stress-related issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through the options and tailor strategies to a person’s goals, values, and daily life. That collaborative process helps decide whether ACT, CBT, attachment ideas, or a blend fits best.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. These formats let people work through skills, practice new ways of communicating, and check in between sessions without rearranging their whole day. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and tools to each format, keeping the focus on practical steps and progress rather than labels or tests.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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
Next step
Talk to James
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point