James P DestaLicensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC (he, him)

About

As both a therapist and a person, I understand that life sometimes serves up hard-to-categorize problems that can be overwhelming. I'm very familiar with issues like depression, anxiety, and addiction, and my training and certification in EMDR allows me to be especially effective with trauma resolution and attachment repair. My career started on a hospital behavioral health inpatient unit, which has allowed me to become comfortable with some pretty intense situations, but my background is varied and I work well with all ages. Therapy with me is relaxed yet focused - and I promise not to ask you how that makes you feel. I practice attachment-focused EMDR, so means I'm really interested in who you are and where you came from. Behaviors we consider to be "bad" are actually useful answers to problems we saw a lot early on, but we got so good at them that now they happen more often than we'd like. (e.g. Avoidance is useful with the school bully, but bad in close relationships.)

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