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Integrated approaches to therapy that support your needs.

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​Services

At Lumen Creative Therapy Services, PLLC, we offer trauma-focused, relational, and embodied care for adults, couples, and families navigating the complexity of stress, trauma, and life transitions. Whether you’re living with the effects of early wounding, feeling overwhelmed by present demands, or seeking more authentic connection, we provide a steady, attuned space for healing and integration.

Our approach is grounded in the understanding that symptoms often arise from deeply intelligent adaptations—and that healing begins not by fixing what's “wrong,” but by listening to what has been unmet. We work collaboratively, honoring each person’s story, physiology, relationships, and the broader systems that shape their experience.

We integrate somatic awareness, creative process, attachment science, and justice-rooted ethics to support your return to wholeness.

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Areas of Focus

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  • Trauma, PTSD, and Complex PTSD
    Focused, embodied care for developmental, relational, systemic, and acute trauma. Sessions support pacing, containment, and lasting repair.

  • Stress & Burnout
    Care for those in high-pressure roles or long-term survival states—grounding, restoring, and building resilience through the body and breath.

  • Anxiety & Depression
    Support that helps you move beyond symptom management—toward insight, regulation, and renewed vitality.

  • Grief & Loss
    Compassionate presence for processing death, change, rupture, and ambiguous grief with tenderness and clarity.

  • Life Transitions
    Guidance through major shifts in identity, relationship, career, health, or purpose—held within a reflective and integrative frame.

  • Family Conflict & Intergenerational Healing
    Therapy informed by family systems theory and attachment science to help identify legacy patterns, role dynamics, and paths toward repair.

  • Couples Therapy
    Integrative couples work blending the Gottman Method, attachment theory, and body-aware dialogue to support communication, connection, and mutual understanding.

 

Modalities & Approaches

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  • Attachment-Based Psychotherapy
    A relational approach focused on repairing early wounds, increasing emotional security, and building the capacity for intimacy and trust.

  • Family Systems & Relational Therapies
    Exploring how family roles, structures, and inherited narratives impact present-day experience—within and between generations.

  • Gottman Method Couples Work
    Research-based tools for building friendship, resolving conflict, and deepening emotional attunement in intimate partnerships.

  • EMDR- (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
    Gentle and effective trauma processing using bilateral stimulation, tailored for nervous system readiness and safety.

  • Somatic Experiencing®
    Body-based trauma resolution that restores regulation and presence by tracking sensation, impulse, and internal rhythm.

  • Creative Integration & Expressive Therapies
    The use of art, writing, movement, and breath to deepen insight and open new pathways to healing—especially when words aren’t enough.

  • Mindfulness-Based Approaches
    Practices that cultivate present-moment awareness, internal spaciousness, and the ability to respond rather than react.

  • Person-Centered Orientation
    Therapy built on respect, deep listening, and genuine presence—allowing healing to unfold at your own pace and in your own voice.

We honor each client’s inherent dignity, worth, complexity, culture, and story. Lumen Creative Therapy Services, PLLC is committed to focused, justice-oriented care, resisting all forms of oppression and nurturing each individual’s sense of belonging in community.

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PO BOX 553

ASHEVILLE, NC 28803

james@lumencreativeavl.com

©2025 Lumen Creative Therapy Services PLLC 

 
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