James Robert PorterDr. Jim Porter, PhD is a psychotherapist in Gainesville, Florida who specializes in helping clients overcome abuse, bullying, and their after-effects that still plague us years after the initial trauma. He founded his counseling practice in Gainesvile in 2008 and has been working with clients to guide them to build up their personal lives, break free, find the love and life they want and build emotionally stable lives. He believe everyone deserves to be emotionally free of others' expectations--and that through counseling you can learn to stand up for yourself and loved ones.He works with multicultural counseling, trauma, anxiety-related disorders, anger, couples therapy, and parenting of teens. Using individual and group counseling, he helps clients to build better lives. His counseling prepares clients to learn to feel, think, and engage life in productive ways. Making changes in life by taping into feelings and needs and allows us to receive help from others. As a trusted, caring professional he seeks help people resolve conflicts and cope with feeling through research-tested methods. He recognizes how important our cognitive perception of our feelings build our emotional world. For this reason, he is consulting with Karen Porter to build a children's book series that help children develop as individuals who can cope with feelings early on. He recognizes how the brain changes positively or negatively with every experience. So, if we build emotionally stable children early on, counseling will be even more effective later. Counseling guides neural changes, creating new habits that help you achieve your goals. Counseling is a relationship. People thrive on good relationships. Read More Read Less