About James
James French is a BACP counsellor who offers a calm, practical space for people feeling overwhelmed. He focuses on clear conversations and simple strategies so clients can manage stress, anxiety and difficult life changes. James uses approachable language and steady support rather than jargon.
He welcomes people from diverse backgrounds and works with international clients in English. James draws on three years of practice to help with depression, relationship strain, grief and trauma.
Background and approach
He also supports those coping with addictions, ADHD, compassion fatigue and career concerns. Sessions address practical day-to-day problems like sleep, eating, anger and low self-esteem as well as deeper issues such as attachment and abandonment. His way of working mixes body-aware somatic ideas with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-focused conversation.
That means paying attention to physical sensations as well as thoughts and feelings, and helping clients notice what matters to them. He uses clear exercises and real-life tasks so change can happen between sessions. People meet him online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging, which suits busy lives and international time zones.
Sessions come through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time and costs vary by location and therapist availability. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the available times. James aims to work collaboratively, helping each person find small, manageable steps forward.
How somatic and talk-based approaches work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to the body's signals as part of emotional change. It helps people notice where tension or calm sits in the body and use gentle practices to shift those patterns, which can be useful for stress, anxiety and trauma.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small actions towards those values. It combines mindfulness of thoughts and feelings with concrete behavioural steps, often helping with depression, anxiety and life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and will adapt methods as needed. That means working together to choose whether more body awareness, acceptance work or practical CBT-style tasks are best at any point.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules. These options offer flexibility for people in different time zones or with mobility or caregiving constraints. Many clients find that regular online sessions plus short between-session practices help maintain steady progress over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English