Nikyra James
My name is Nikyra James. I am a Licensed (Independent) Clinical Social Worker. I have over ten years of experience providing care across the lifespan. It is important to know that I seek to develop genuine, caring relationships with my clients as I believe that feeling cared about is an important component of feeling safe in a therapeutic space. I lead with honesty, transparency, and occasionally humor and I invite my clients to do the same, please bring your full self to therapy. I have a passion for helping people of color and supporting individuals navigate trauma, anxiety, neurodivergence, identity, stress, self confidence, and interpersonal difficulties and conflict. It is my belief that therapy is a partnership between clinician and client and it is my goal to help my clients achieve healing, wellness, resiliency, and tolerance for life’s challenges and stressors in ways that truly align with their personal goals and highest visions for themselves. I utilize evidenced based practices and my therapeutic modalities of choice are: CBT, DBT, ERP, Motivational Interviewing, REBT influence, ACT, and Mindfulness. It is my joy and pleasure to assist you in your journey.
First session
In our first session, I will review information from your intake forms, confirm your goals for treatment and what is important to you in a therapeutic relationship with your therapist, and begin establishing rapport. My goal is to get to know you better and allow you to get a feel for my clinical style.
Strengths
I have worked with a wide range of people, some who want to be in therapy, some who don’t, some who are apprehensive until they realize the fit is right. This helps me be a successful clinician because I am able to connect with a wide range of people and provide quality care that resonates with their lived experience, meeting my clients where they are at. I am empathetic, compassionate, personable, transparent, flexible, patient, and understanding. I utilize evidenced based practices and my therapeutic modalities of choice are: CBT, DBT, ERP, Motivational Interviewing, REBT influence, ACT, and Mindfulness.
Ideal clients
I am best positioned to serve a client who is an older teen, young adult, or adult who is ready to engage fully in therapy and the therapeutic process. Someone who is coming to therapy open and willing to do the work. I enjoy supporting clients through identity, self esteem, trauma, anxiety, depression, cognitive distortions, stress, interpersonal issues, and life transitions.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I have utilized CBT throughout the length of my career, a primary approach of mine with cognitive behavioral therapy is supporting clients in identifying and understanding the link between how we think/believe, feel, and behave as they all work together and are influenced by one another. I support clients in noticing and naming the aforementioned and then consciously choosing how to respond with understanding, compassion, and flexibility in a way that best serves where they want to go.
Location
Virtual sessions
Identifies as
Black / African American
Christian
Woman
Top specialties
Child or Adolescent
Coping Skills
Peer Relationships
Other specialties
Anger Management
Anxiety
Crisis Intervention
Depression
Life Transitions
Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
Phobias
School Issues
Self Esteem
Self-Harming
Serves
Adults (18 to 64)
Individual Therapy
Man
Teenagers (13 to 17)
Woman