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Nashville | Chattanooga
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james@jamestrone.com
(615) 601-1334

Trauma Focused Work

The focus on trauma work has become more prevalent over the last 15 years in the field of psychology. Part of the work is knowing your own story, identifying patterns and ways you have uniquely been wounded that alter the actual reality of the present moment. It is when we haven’t processed our pain that we often then reenact the unprocessed traumas in our current lives. Many modalities are effective, but everyone responds differently. For more details, go to the services page.

schema Therapy (Models of self)

It is our negative thinking patterns that cause us pain and suffering. But oftentimes it's not only our thinking but the emotions and felt sense that keep us in negative behavioral patterns. Schema therapy is a proven, researched modality that helps identify one’s negative patterns so one can then make changes in his or her life.

Meditation work

I believe there’s a common misunderstanding in Western culture about meditation. It’s often seen as “new age,” but in reality, meditation is ancient. At its core, it’s simply the practice of being present with oneself. There are many forms—walking, painting, writing poetry, and, of course, the more traditional sitting practices that focus on breath and body awareness. In my therapeutic work, meditation is a foundational tool. It helps clients return to the present moment, where real healing begins.

spiritual direction

Spiritual Direction is not about directing and changing one’s faith or religious preferences. I do not believe my role as a therapist is to direct one’s religious or non-religious beliefs. Rather, it is to allow yourself room to sit with the spiritual questions that arise within you. I have found the therapeutic space is very helpful to sit in the place of deep silence, listening for that “ever still small voice within.”

somatic (Body) work

Somatic work goes hand in hand with meditation. The focus is on coming back to the body rather than living in one’s thinking. The problem for most of Western culture is that we are too head-centric. So it’s a practice of connecting back to the head, the heart, and the body. Somatic practice is knowing where you are feeling emotions and sensations in the body and connecting back to oneself, versus a pseudo-dissociative state, which occurs when we are caught up in thinking over being.

Adult Children of alcoholics & dysfunction Families

This terminology is often confusing for many when I mention Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA) because many who identify with ACA did not grow up in alcoholic homes. Rather, it was experiences of dysfunction. ACA work is very helpful in healing the inner child and childhood traumas, and it’s some of the most rewarding work.