Hello, I’m James Brighton. I offer psychotherapy and 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 and therapy service 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 this right for you?
A coaching and/or therapeutic partnership is highly relational. The work is most impactful when the client feels an authentic connection with their coach or therapist; 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
Too often, we define ourselves through circumstance or expectation—choices shaped more by the world around us than by the life moving within us. This can leave us living from a “default self,” caught in either/or versions of identity that feel too small. That ARE too small.
In truth, the self is paradoxical. It reveals itself through contrast—through the tension between what we are and what we are not. Paradoxical Self Development invites us to hold these opposites with curiosity and compassion, allowing their dialogue to reveal a more whole and authentic way of being.
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.