Meet Arden James (He/Him)

Life’s challenges can feel overwhelming and feeling disconnected from your emotions and body is a struggle all too familiar for many. Arden helps people connect with their emotions and he specializes in helping people improve their relationships with food, movement, and body.

He believes eating disorders, food relationships, and body image are not about food or willpower. They are more often about our emotions – grief, pain, anger, sadness, and a desire for control. Arden uses a relational approach to support you as you explore your emotions and stories with curiosity and compassion, uncover the roots of your patterns, and rewrite them in empowering ways.

We often turn to food, substances, or other ways of coping when connection is what we crave most. Pain often leads us to protection instead of connection, and reconnecting with yourself, your emotions, and your body can help you heal and grow. You are not broken or the problem, and your emotions are not problems to be avoided or controlled. The problem is the problem, and emotions are messages to help you grow and evolve.

As a Latino male in a larger body, a parent, and a former IT professional with a 25 year career, Arden has lived and therapeutic experience working through fat bias, eating disorders, chronic illness, addiction recovery, neurodivergence, trauma, and burnout. He understands the pressures of high-achieving environments, juggling competing priorities, and strained relationships, and has seen how therapy can open us up to our own wisdom and our path to healing.

Arden is passionate about supporting marginalized and overlooked communities. As a proud ally of the LGBTQIA+ community, he has experience working with people navigating their gender and sexual identity with societal expectations in body-positive, sex-positive, and diverse ways.

Arden provides a safe and non-judgmental space to experience yourself and your emotions in new ways. He is a pre-licensed therapist after graduating from Mercer University with a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. To start your journey toward healing and connection, reach out today to schedule a consultation.