James Zaremba, LICSW

James Zaremba is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 18 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, depression, grief, and challenges around parenting and self-esteem. He works with concerns related to LGBT issues, addiction, family dynamics, and life changes.

He draws on several therapeutic approaches and adapts them to each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of his work, along with client-centered methods and emotionally-focused techniques. He also uses mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas when they fit a client's goals.

In sessions he aims to collaborate with people rather than direct them. He helps identify problems, talks through patterns, and practices practical strategies clients can use between meetings. The focus is on building skills that carry forward after therapy ends.

James has practiced in multiple regions and brings broad experience to complex family and identity issues, including adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, fatherhood concerns, and multicultural stressors. He also addresses codependency, communication problems, and commitment or intimacy questions.

People can expect a friendly, professional, and easy-going approach. James describes his role as a team member who supports, gently challenges, and helps people develop tools for handling current and future struggles.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

James blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy to help people tackle specific problems and build practical skills. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-centered work prioritizes the person's perspective and aims to strengthen motivation, self-worth, and decision-making.

He also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy when relationship or intimacy issues are central. EFT helps people notice emotions, improve communication, and create more secure connections in close relationships. Together these approaches offer both skill-focused work and deeper emotional understanding.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. That collaborative planning means techniques can shift as needs change over time.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules.