Hello, I’m James Brighton. I offer personal coaching that integrates my studied expertise in traditional psychology with a transformative technique cultivated from my work in acting and creativity.
I’m currently available for a complementary consultation.
M,A. Counseling Psychology.
Helping you discover your more dimensional and capable self, and to attune with its power to life change.
Meeting virtually wherever you are.
My integrated coaching applies rigorous and compassionate inquiry into multiple life domains.
It is meant to challenge you into existential and archetypal exploration aimed at self discovery, restoration, and empowerment.
This work supports you in identifying and overcoming obstacles that prevent you from committing to a fuller and truer self.
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
— Henry Miller
Is James’s coaching right for you?
A coaching partnership is highly relational. The work is most impactful when the client feels an authentic connection with their coach; and vice versa. I am pleased to provide a free first session/consultation for us to determine if my work has the value to positively assist you in the changes you are seeking for your life.
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What is Soul?
“By soul I mean, first of all, a perspective rather than a substance, a viewpoint toward things rather than a thing itself.” - James Hillman.
I use soul as metaphor for the inner aspect of experience, that mysterious function that turns events into experience and gives meanings a home in body and identity.
Paradoxical Self
How to define the self? Too often, we are confined to a choice generated more by the circumstances around us than by the experience of what comes from within us. It sets in motion an either/or identity. A choice made by a defaulted self.
To identify a truer self, I believe we must look at it comparatively, not combatively. The paradoxical self evaluates the who-what-why we are by comparing it to the who-what-why we are not. By evaluating these seeming opposites of self identity, we are better able to understand, discover, and put into practice what is true in both. This is a significant value of Paradoxical Self Development.
Being
Through comparative conversation of conscious and unconscious motivations, I help you gain clarity of your deeper and sometimes denied values.
I support and encourage you to live in alignment with your discovered and realized truths.
I will find ways to help you gain strength of being - in voice, character, and perspective.