Individual Work
James offers one-on-one support for people, parents, and couples who want to grow in their capacity for connection, regulation, and responsibility. His work helps individuals apply trauma-informed, nonviolent, and attachment-based practices in their daily lives and relationships.
Couples
James works with couples who want to stay connected while navigating conflict, stress, or long-term patterns that are no longer working. His approach draws from trauma-informed practice, Nonviolent Communication, and attachment-based work as practical tools couples can use in real time.
Sessions focus on helping each partner understand their own nervous system and needs, listen without defensiveness, and speak honestly without causing harm. The work is about building a relationship where both people feel safe, responsible to one another, and capable of repairing when things break.
Couples learn how to move out of blame and isolation and into vulnerability, collaboration, ritual, shared responsibility, and a more secure way of loving.
Parents
James offers parent coaching grounded in the Echo Parenting & Education curriculum, which he helped write and develop. He supports parents in bringing trauma-informed, nonviolent, and attachment-based practices into daily family life in real and practical ways.
Coaching sessions are offered over Zoom or in person, often in one-hour meetings where parents receive guidance, language, and tools they can use right away. When helpful, James also works in the home—observing the family dynamic, supporting parents in real time, and helping them apply the parenting curriculum in the rhythm of everyday life.
This work often includes understanding a child’s nervous system, reducing power struggles, repairing after conflict, and creating homes where safety, boundaries, and connection can exist together. His approach helps parents shift from managing behavior to growing relationship—so children and adults can develop with dignity, clarity, and trust.
Individuals
James works with individuals who want support in regulating their nervous system, understanding their patterns, and building relationships that feel grounded and honest. The work isn’t about fixing people — it’s about helping them slow down, notice what’s happening in their body, and respond with more choice and less reactivity.
Using principles from trauma-informed practice, Nonviolent Communication, and attachment theory, James supports people in shifting from survival strategies toward a life shaped by connection, integrity, and responsibility. This work often includes grief, boundary setting, repairing relationships, and learning how to belong to oneself and to others in a way that doesn’t require isolation or hardness.
Rights of Passage
James works with boys and young men to help them cross the quiet threshold between childhood and responsibility. His approach to rites of passage is about learning to carry oneself with integrity, humility, and care for the people and land one belongs to.
These spaces invite boys to practice emotional honesty, self-regulation, attentiveness, and accountability. They learn how to listen to their bodies, speak truth without causing harm, receive feedback, and contribute to the wellbeing of the group. Nature, physical work, silence, service, and story often replace lecture or advice. The work is about allowing them to grow into it with guidence and witness.
James also works with adults—men in particular—who were never offered true initiation, who carry the weight of responsibility without the tools or grounding to hold it well. This work is quiet, slow, and relational. It offers a place for uninitiated adults to learn what was missed: how to be trustworthy, how to apologize and repair, how to be strong without domination, how to love without disappearing.
At its heart, this work is about belonging—teaching boys and men how to stand in their lives in a way that is accountable to their families, communities, and to something larger than themselves.
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