Trauma & PTSD
Understanding trauma responses, reducing distress, addressing avoidance and triggers, and helping difficult experiences become less controlling.
Individual telehealth counseling for adults
Practical help for anxiety, trauma, and the challenges life brings.
I’m a seminary-trained trauma therapist. I work with adults who are looking for real-life solutions to anxiety, trauma, depression, major life transitions, and other challenges that can leave them feeling stuck or overwhelmed.
Schedule an Appointment50-minute session · $100 · Private pay
James Bryant, LMHCTrauma-informed counseling grounded in real-world experience.
About James
A thoughtful, grounded approach to therapy.
I am a combat veteran with more than 12 years of experience living and working overseas. Before becoming a therapist, I spent 19 years in a prior career, including experience serving in ministry overseas. Those experiences shape the perspective I bring to counseling, particularly when working with veterans, people navigating major transitions, and clients whose lives do not fit neatly into one category.
My approach blends useful tools with thoughtful conversation, helping you better understand what you are experiencing while also building strategies you can use in everyday life. I have worked successfully with adults from a wide range of backgrounds, cultures, beliefs, and life experiences. For clients who want faith to be part of counseling, my seminary and ministry background also allows us to integrate Christian faith naturally into the process.
I am trained in EMDR and use evidence-based approaches including CBT, DBT, ACT, CPT, motivational interviewing, and other methods based on the needs and goals of the person in front of me.
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Areas of focus
What we can address together
Veterans
Counseling informed by military culture and the realities of service, deployment, transition, relationships, loss, and life after the military.
Christian Counseling
With seminary training and ministry experience, I offer a Christian counseling perspective that understands faith as a central lens for making sense of ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us. For clients seeking it, Christian beliefs and spiritual reflection can be integrated naturally into the therapeutic process.
Anxiety & Life Transitions
Support for anxiety, uncertainty, changing roles, relationships, identity, and seasons when old ways of coping are no longer effective.
EMDR
EMDR may be incorporated when it fits your goals and clinical needs, particularly when past experiences continue to create distress in the present.
Individual Adult Therapy
My practice is focused on individual psychotherapy with adults. I do not provide couples therapy through this practice.
Approach
Understanding the problem matters. So does knowing what to do next.
I believe therapy works best when insight leads to something useful in everyday life.
I tend to be collaborative, direct, and grounded. We may spend time understanding why a pattern developed, how past experiences continue to affect the present, or why a particular situation has become difficult to manage. From there, we develop strategies that fit your goals and make sense in your life.
Some clients benefit from structured trauma treatment such as EMDR. Others need a place to think clearly, challenge unhelpful patterns, develop better coping strategies, or navigate a difficult season. Therapy should be responsive to the person rather than forcing every person through the same process.
Fees
Simple private-pay counseling.
$100
per 50-minute individual session
A limited number of reduced-fee appointments may be available. Availability is not guaranteed.
James Bryant Therapy is a private-pay practice and does not bill insurance directly. A superbill can be provided upon request for clients who wish to independently seek possible out-of-network reimbursement.
Payment is required in connection with scheduling. A 24-hour cancellation policy applies.
Telehealth eligibility
Where services are available
For clients located within the United States, services are currently available only when you are physically located in Florida at the time of your session.
International clients may be accepted where legally and professionally permissible. Eligibility is determined before treatment begins.
Sessions are provided by secure video. Your identity and physical location are confirmed as appropriate for telehealth care.
Get started
Schedule an appointment
Online scheduling and client paperwork will be provided through the secure James Bryant Therapy portal in Sessions Health. You will be able to choose an available appointment, complete required consent and intake paperwork, join telehealth sessions, make payments, send secure messages, and manage your appointments from one place.
Secure client portal coming shortly.
General questions? jbryanttherapy@gmail.com. Please use the Sessions Health portal for private or clinical information.