I’m James Brighton. I offer psychotherapy and personal coaching that integrates depth psychology with transformative technique cultivated from my work in acting and creative practice.
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 dimension of experience; that mysterious way events become experience and meanings find home in body and identity.
Paradoxical Self
Too often, we come to know ourselves through circumstance and expectation, living from a “default self” shaped more by the world around us than by the life moving within us. Yet the self is paradoxical. It reveals itself through the tension between what we are and what we are not.
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Paradoxical self development invites curiosity toward these opposites, creating a dialogue between conscious intentions and less conscious motivations. Through this process, we can discover values and truths that have been overlooked, denied, or waiting to emerge.
My work supports you in bringing those discoveries into how you live, strengthening your voice, character, and perspective.