QUEER-AFFIRMING THERAPY SERVICES IN MICHIGAN & NEW YORK

trust in your own power and trust in your right to be well, stable, and free.

-naimonu james

VIDEO & PHONE APPOINTMENTS

Adults
College & Graduate Students
Multi-Partner Relationships
Couples

I offer support with

childhood trauma

family of origin trauma

understanding emotions

building trust with yourself

soft skills

life transitions

relationship conflict

expanding internal resources

*To continue expanding into a justice-oriented approach to therapy, I am moving away from diagnosing and pathologizing feelings and experiences. However, if exploring a diagnosis is important to you or for accessing healthcare services, such as gender-affirming care or surgery, or out-of-network reimbursement, I'm happy to offer support for depression, anxiety, PTSD, complex-PTSD, adjustment disorder, and gender dysphoria. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out.

reasons people come to see me

Professional Processing

Experience a supportive space where you can freely express and work through emotions and life events, whether they occurred in childhood, a few years ago, or are happening right now.

Personalized Support

Receive support in addition to what your community can provide. Whether you're new to therapy or have been before, having personalized support during significant life changes can make a big difference.

Expand Internal Resources

Internal Resources are the soft skills, anchors, and magic within us that we can use when faced with life’s challenges. Identify your strengths and values, and learn skills that will change how you navigate stress.

Embodied Living Practices

Learn to slow down and listen to what your feelings and body are saying to understand what they need from you. Reconnect with yourself in ways that will nurture a secure home within.

modalities + frameworks

Holistic Therapy considers the entire person - body, mind, spirit, and emotions - and uses a nonlinear approach to healing.

Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) can help you explore and understand your inner world in a new way. It involves recognizing and establishing connections with various "parts" of yourself to foster healing and integration.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on accepting what is out of your control while committing to actions that improve your life. It uses mindfulness and acceptance strategies to develop psychological flexibility and encourage values-based behavior change.

Somatic-Based Therapy explores how physical sensations and emotions are interconnected and teaches us to use our body’s messages as information for self-awareness and healing.

Talk therapy can be helpful if you prefer to process what's happening verbally. This method can be combined with any of the above methods.

Additional Frameworks: Relational, Justice-Oriented, Insight-Oriented, Feminist, and Person-Centered