You don’t have to keep carrying what’s heavy.
Therapy for trauma, post-traumatic stress, anxiety and depression — so you can feel like yourself again.
Jim reads and answers every message himself.
Licensed in Texas
MA, LPC
Trained in
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and EMDR
In practice
12+ years
Sessions
In person or telehealth
Where most people start
Therapy that gets to the root.
Most people who contact me have been coping for a long time — functioning, and exhausted by how much effort that takes. I use talk therapy and Accelerated Resolution Therapy to work on the cause rather than the surface.
You do not have to know what is wrong, or have a label, before you get in touch.
Trauma therapy
For people carrying something that happened to them — recently or decades ago — that still shapes how they sleep, react, and relate.
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For people leaving — or still inside — a relationship built on control, blame-shifting and being told their own perception is wrong.
Learn morePTSD treatment
Structured treatment for post-traumatic stress symptoms: intrusive memories, avoidance, hypervigilance, and the changes in mood and thinking that come with them.
Learn moreAnxiety therapy
When worry stops being useful and starts running the day — sleep, decisions, work, and the things you have quietly stopped doing.
Learn moreDepression therapy
For flatness, exhaustion, and loss of interest that has lasted long enough that you have started calling it normal.
Learn moreSex addiction therapy
Outpatient treatment for compulsive sexual behavior: what keeps the pattern running, how access is interrupted, and what the behavior is regulating.
Learn moreTherapy for veterans and military families
Combat and service-related trauma, transition stress, and the particular problem of asking for help in a culture built on not needing it.
Learn moreMeet Jim Denning
Careful, experienced, and honest about what therapy can do.
Twelve years in practice, trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and EMDR, and a former engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. I will tell you plainly whether I am the right person — including when I am not.
What people come in for
A list of problems, not a menu of diagnoses.
You do not need to arrive with the right word for it. Working out what is actually going on is the first part of the job, and it is often not the thing you booked the appointment about.
- Trauma, recent or long past
- Post-traumatic stress
- Anxiety and constant worry
- Depression
- Grief
- Phobias
- Narcissistic abuse and coercive control
- Sexual, emotional, and physical abuse
- Compulsive sexual behavior
- Substance and alcohol misuse
- Suicidal thoughts
The approach people come here for
Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) works on the image a difficult memory leaves behind. Guided eye movements help the brain reprocess what it is holding, so the memory stays but stops delivering the same physical jolt.
You do not have to narrate what happened out loud. It is often briefer than open-ended talk therapy — though it is not a guarantee, not right for everyone, and how many sessions you need is assessed rather than promised.
Written by Jim
Make It to Midnight: Learning to Live When You Want to Die
A first-person account of rejecting a treatment-resistant diagnosis, and the tools that got him through. Not a treatment plan, and not a substitute for care.
Paying for therapy
Rates and insurance
- Individual session, private pay
- $130
- Insurance
- In network, billed directly
Being on a panel is not the same as your plan covering a session. We check your benefits before you commit to anything.
Getting started
Three ways to start, depending on where you are.
You are considering therapy
Send a short message. A few lines is plenty — please do not send your clinical history or insurance card through the website.
You are already a client
Scheduling, documents and messages go through the secure client portal, not this site's contact form.
You need help today
We are not a crisis service and cannot answer urgently. Call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, free, at any hour.