James Joseph Beaulieu, LPC
Pennsylvania · 28 years in practice
James Joseph Beaulieu is a licensed professional counselor with 28 years of experience.
License and registration
- LPC, Pennsylvania
- PC001573 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1326018292 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 28
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About James
James Joseph Beaulieu is a licensed professional counselor with 28 years of experience. He aims to help people who feel stuck by offering steady support and a calm, nonjudgmental presence. He encourages people to name what matters and take small, practical steps toward change.
In sessions he focuses on feelings and relationships, helping clients notice patterns that keep them stuck. He uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at emotions that drive behavior and attachment-based ideas to understand how early bonds affect current responses.
Background and approach
He also draws on acceptance and commitment work and cognitive-behavioral techniques to build everyday coping skills. People reach out for help with addictions, trauma and abuse, body image and eating concerns, low self-esteem, and major life changes. He also supports those facing caregiving stress, chronic illness, and issues related to adoption, abandonment, or attachment.
He pays attention to how relationship patterns shape daily life and decision making. Sessions aim to be practical and conversational. He listens for what feels most urgent, then outlines small experiments clients can try between sessions.
Progress often comes from noticing emotions, trying new responses, and practicing different ways of talking about needs. James works with people in Pennsylvania and also accepts international clients in English. He combines long experience with straightforward guidance to help people make steady, manageable changes.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything James lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches James names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approach-driven online therapy that centers emotions
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and work with their core emotions to change problematic interaction patterns and improve how they relate to themselves and others. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then committing to actions that match personal values. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people develop new ways of relating and trusting.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try different strategies, and adjust the work based on what helps most. Clients often move between focusing on emotion, building practical skills, and experimenting with small behavioral changes during the course of therapy.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text-based messaging work for quick check-ins, journaling between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, or health needs.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does he help with?
He helps people facing addictions, trauma and abuse, eating and body image concerns, low self-esteem, relationship struggles, and coping with major life changes.
What is his general therapy style?
Sessions are conversational and focused on emotions and patterns. He mixes listening with concrete exercises clients can try between sessions.
How much experience does he have?
He has 28 years of professional experience working with a wide range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
What credentials and location information are relevant?
He holds an LPC credential and practices in Pennsylvania.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and he accepts clients from other countries as well.
What session formats are available?
He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions billed?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with him?
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