About James
James Slaton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Kentucky. He has worked in mental health since 2012 and has been licensed since 2015. James helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, substance concerns, and relationship or parenting challenges.
He takes a direct, practical approach and aims to help people feel understood and able to move forward. Before becoming a full-time counselor he worked in a state mental hospital, a community mental health crisis unit, and with Child Protective Services.
Background and approach
That background gives him experience with crisis situations, investigations, and ongoing support for people in difficult life moments. He draws on those years when thinking through safety and practical steps. His style is client-centered and solution-focused.
He uses Somatic approaches to help people notice how their bodies hold stress, and Cognitive Behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotionally-Focused ideas also appear when useful to manage emotions and improve connections. Sessions are practical and straightforward.
James aims to make each person the expert on their own life while offering tools and guidance shaped by his experience. He avoids judgement and focuses on honest, steady work toward change. James works with a wide range of concerns including addiction, ADHD, parenting strains, compassion fatigue, career transitions, grief and coping with major life changes.
He is committed to steady progress and to helping people build resilience over time.
How somatic and evidence-based methods work online
Somatic work helps people notice and change the ways their body holds stress. Online sessions can include guided breathing, movement awareness, and grounding practices to reduce physical tension and support emotional regulation.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating an accepting space where the person leads the work. That approach helps people explore what matters most to them and decide on their own goals while the therapist listens and reflects.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In online sessions James can coach practical skills, help reframe unhelpful thoughts, and set manageable behavior experiments to try between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. He will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That plan can shift over time as progress is made or new challenges appear.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, to repeat exercises at home, and to stay connected when travel or schedules change. Licensed professionals can use these tools to deliver consistent support and practical strategies across distance.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Kentucky
- Languages
- English