Prof. Jamilia James, LPC
Compassionate somatic-informed counselor for everyday struggles
About Jamilia
Prof. Jamilia James is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey. She brings a practical, down-to-earth approach to therapy and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
Her style aims to make therapy understandable and useful from the first session. She uses somatic ideas to help people notice how their bodies hold tension and to add gentle body-awareness to talk therapy. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build small, manageable steps forward.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps when patterns of thinking and behavior get in the way of daily life. Across six years of clinical experience she has worked with a broad range of issues including trauma, grief, parenting strain, addictions, eating and body image concerns, and career stress. She also supports people navigating bipolar symptoms, anger, and life transitions.
Her background includes work with aging and geriatric issues, adoption and foster care topics, and attachment-related concerns. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Costs vary with location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, clients select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability. This process helps match practical goals with the communication style that will work best.
Combining body awareness and practical therapy online
Somatic-informed work focuses on how tension and emotion show up in the body. It helps people notice physical sensations like tightness or shallow breathing and learn simple ways to ease that tension during everyday moments. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) centers on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps toward those values even when thoughts or feelings are difficult. It can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a client's goals, try different methods, and adjust the plan together so it fits the client's needs and preferences. That may mean blending somatic awareness with ACT or adding cognitive tools for thinking patterns that cause trouble.
Online therapy makes this collaborative work more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided body-awareness exercises. Phone sessions offer a simpler format for people on the go. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients check in between sessions or choose a lower-intensity way to communicate. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent with a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English