LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy

I Am A LGBQ-TGNC+ Affirming Provider

Before I was a psychotherapist, I was a Social Worker with the ethical duty to pursue social justice and fight oppression. To that end, as a Clinical Social Worker providing psychotherapy services to individuals, couples and families, I explicitly affirm Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming, and Gender Queer identities and relationships. I identify as a cisgender, heterosexual male, and do my own work in ongoing training and supervision to monitor and address my own heterosexism and cisgenderism, and recognize my clients' experiences of self and other in our homophobic and transphobic culture as a crucial context to their presenting emotional, mental and relational problems and concerns as well as my clients' resiliency to be able to live in such a hostile and toxic social environment. I actively confront homophobia, heterosexism, transphobia, and cisgenderism located in others (in partners or families) or internalized within individuals.

James is currently waitlisting new clients at this time. To connect to available employees under James's supervision at North Carolina Therapy Professionals or to join James's waitlist, please visit https://www.nctherapists.com/

James McCracken is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Practitioner and Supervisor, and Certified Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Practitioner and Supervisor-in-Training dedicated to improving the mental health and emotional well being of North Carolina residents. He provides couple therapy, marriage counseling, premarital counseling, sex therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT, EFCT, EFFT, EFIT), Discernment Counseling, divorce counseling, Conscious Uncoupling, co-parenting counseling, family therapy, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), individual psychotherapy, grief & loss counseling, and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART). He also offers Clinical Social Work Supervision, EFT (EFCT & EFFT) supervision, AEDP Supervision, and integrative psychotherapy and relationship therapy consultation services through North Carolina Therapy Professionals, PLLC (Co-Founder, Managing Member and Clinical Director). Located in Durham, NC, his office is conveniently located to Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Hillsborough, Morrisville, Apex, and Cary for in-office visits, and is available online for all residents of and visitors to North Carolina (for therapy services) and globally (for supervision and consultation). If you would like to learn more about this practice directly, receive a free brief consult, or set up an appointment, please call
919-267-1661 or visit https://www.nctherapists.com/

We welcome and celebrate diversity in this practice and stand against oppression and social injustice including discrimination based on any aspect of identity including: national origin, religion, racism and white supremacy, patriarchy & sexism, ageism, gender conformism & transphobia, and heteronormativity & homophobia. We work with adolescent and adult clients from diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic and religious backgrounds, and are allied and affirmative providers to LGBQ-TGNC+ persons, and are sex-positive, body-positive, and kink-friendly providers.
James A McCracken is listed at AllTherapist.com