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James Morrell, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 6 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyAddictionsRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseDepression
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James Morrell is a counsellor with six years' experience and membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). He trained to a Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and Psychotherapy and uses a person-centred, humanistic approach at the heart of his work. James keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters to the person in front of him.
James aims to build a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about things that feel difficult.
Background and approach
He listens for personal meaning rather than imposing labels, and helps people name what they need. He also draws on other approaches when they fit a person’s goals, such as attachment ideas, mindfulness and psychodynamic thinking. Many clients bring worries about stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, bereavement or relationship concerns.
James also supports people with issues around identity, self-esteem, anger, sleep and eating, and those facing life changes such as career shifts or parenting strains. He works with emotional and behavioural patterns including attachment and codependency. In sessions James keeps language simple and practical.
He encourages curiosity about personal history alongside attention to present challenges. Sessions can involve talking, reflective questions and small experiments to try between meetings. He offers a flexible, collaborative style that aims to respect each person’s culture and background.
International clients may work in English, using video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit their needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
James draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand how early relationships shape current patterns. This can be useful when problems with trust, closeness or repeated relationship difficulties keep coming up. He also uses client-centred practice which focuses on the individual's experience and preferences; sessions centre on listening, empathic response and helping people find their own direction.Finding the right approach is part of the work. James will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and together they will decide which way of working to try. That collaborative process means therapy can evolve as the person changes.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls let people have a fuller face-to-face conversation from different locations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier for quick check-ins or when being on camera is tiring. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter exchanges, immediate reflections or people who prefer writing to speaking. Registered or accredited professionals offer these formats so therapy can fit around work, family and different time zones.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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