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Nice to meet you, I'm Jennifer James. I'm a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and I'm passionate about helping my clients experience healing and learn the skills that they need to manage challenges in their lives and relationships.
My approach
My therapeutic approach is somewhat eclectic. I blend pieces of person-centered therapy with self-compassion, mindfulness, and cognitive-behavioral therapy.
My focus
I typically work with clients that are struggling with anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and relationship problems. I have expertise in working with trauma, abuse, and domestic violence as well.
My communication style
It is my goal to create a warm, calm, non-judgmental, and safe space for my clients to share their thoughts. I see it as my job to help my clients see new options they could utilize to solve problems in their lives and to gently help them make the kinds of choices that can lead to a healthy and fulfilling life.
My journey to mental healthcare
After a series of mishaps in life during my twenties, I went through a depressive episode, but I didn't know that was what it was. I went to the doctor thinking there was something wrong with my thyroid, and he explained the truth of the situation and sent me to a therapist. She changed my life and my worldview and showed me the path toward wellness. I was so amazed and impressed that I decided that I wanted to do the same for other people, and became a therapist myself. I realize that when people come in for therapy, they are often in the lowest and most difficult situations of their lives. It is my goal to support them and help them find the tools to move through their problems and create lives and relationships that are supportive of them.
My goals for you
As far as goal setting is concerned, I usually ask my clients what they would like to accomplish during treatment and what their goals for therapy are, and then I do my best to help them accomplish those goals. As therapy proceeds, I may make suggestions for other goals that seem appropriate for their life situations, but in the end, I try to honor the client's wishes.
My first session with you
During the first session I will ask questions about what brings the client to therapy, what is going on with their moods, and their life situations, and then help them to set some initial goals for therapy, and likely assign some simple homework to get them started on the work to reach their goals.
