About James
James Leverington is a counsellor who draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse. He also supports people dealing with grief, low self-esteem, depression and addictive behaviours. James works in English and practises from the United Kingdom with four years of professional experience.
He is registered with the BACP, which appears after his name as BACP. James aims to create a calm and non-judgemental space where people can talk about difficult feelings.
How James works
Sessions focus on helping people make sense of what they are facing and on practical steps to feel steadier day to day. He encourages small, achievable changes that fit around a person’s life. People bring many kinds of struggles to sessions, including relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, anger, and coping with life changes.
He also addresses concerns linked to ADHD, attachment and adoption matters, body image, codependency and dissociation. James tailors conversations to the issues someone describes and works at a pace they find manageable. Initial conversations concentrate on understanding what matters most to the client and agreeing on practical goals.
James uses straightforward language and avoids jargon so sessions stay grounded and useful. He believes that steady progress often starts with being heard and understood. Outside of therapy topics he keeps notes of progress and checks in about what is working.
The overall aim is to help people feel more confident in their choices and better able to cope when life gets hard.
What James works with
The areas below are the ones James selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How evidence-based approaches work online
James uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that help people make sense of feelings and learn practical ways to cope. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing different thoughts in everyday situations to reduce anxiety and low mood. Another approach works on processing painful experiences and building stability after trauma by developing safer routines and pacing difficult memories. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to a person’s goals and preferences and suggest methods to try together. This is a collaborative process and techniques can be adjusted as progress is reviewed. Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work and family commitments, and to choose the format that best suits the task at hand.Start online instead of waiting
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