Meet Mick James, LPCA
Mick James (she/they) is a warm, creative, and deeply relational therapist who works with adolescents and adults navigating identity, emotional regulation, body image, and recovery. Mick brings a grounded, affirming presence to therapy and is especially skilled at helping clients who feel disconnected from their emotions, overwhelmed by internal pressure, or unsure how to express what they are experiencing.
Their work is rooted in the belief that healing happens through connection, creativity, and being truly seen. Mick integrates talk therapy with expressive and drama-based approaches, offering clients multiple ways to explore their inner world, not just through words, but through movement, metaphor, role, and play.
Who Mick Works With
Mick works with teens and adults, and is a strong fit for clients who are:
Exploring identity, including gender and sexuality
Navigating eating disorders or body image distress
Seeking LGBTQIA+ affirming, sex-positive care
Processing trauma or chronic stress
Managing co-occurring concerns such as OCD and anxiety
Interested in creative, experiential, or non-traditional therapy approaches
Clients often describe Mick as easy to talk to, collaborative, and attuned. They are especially thoughtful with clients who have felt misunderstood, pathologized, or pressured to “fix” themselves in past care.
Get to Know Mick.
Mick is an unapologetically queer, neurospicy therapist who believes all bodies are good bodies—no exceptions. They specialize in eating disorders, body image, and queer-affirming care, grounded in a body liberation framework that understands eating disorders as a social justice issue.
Mick is trained in drama therapy and expressive arts, and sessions are always guided by consent, choice, and collaboration. Therapy might include improv, role-play, drawing, or even literally smashing a scale together—if and when it feels supportive. Play, embodiment, and connection are used as tools to gently challenge self-doubt, build safety, and support authentic self-expression. And if none of that is your jam, Mick also loves the good ol’ traditional route of listening and talking things through.
Mick is an LPCA and holds a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and Drama Therapy from Lesley University. Their life’s passion is using connection and embodiment as radical, client-led acts of resistance.
Therapy for Teens: Mick’s Approach
Mick’s approach is trauma-aware, fat-affirming, and HAES®-informed, with a strong emphasis on safety, consent, and collaboration. Therapy with Mick is not about forcing change, but about creating space to understand what your system has been doing to survive, and what it might need next.
Drawing from drama therapy and expressive arts, Mick helps clients externalize experiences, explore identity safely, and access emotions that may feel stuck or hard to name. This can be especially supportive for clients who feel disconnected from their bodies or who have learned to intellectualize emotions to cope.
Mick also has extensive experience facilitating groups and understands how relational dynamics, shame, and belonging shape mental health.
Working with Mick, you can expect therapy that is:
Affirming of your identity and lived experience
Attuned to power, consent, and emotional safety
Creative, flexible, and responsive to your needs
Grounded in clinical skill while remaining human and relational
Mick believes therapy should feel like a place where you do not have to perform, explain yourself endlessly, or earn care. You are allowed to arrive exactly as you are.
Availability & Next Steps
Mick is accepting adolescent and adult clients. To explore whether working with Mick might be a good fit, we invite you to schedule a free initial inquiry call, where you can ask questions and get a feel for their approach.