About
James Oxford, LMHC
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
State of Washington · LMHC
Wallingford, Seattle · Telehealth statewide
I came to therapy through a long detour — first as a musician and visual artist, then as someone who kept noticing how much of life is shaped by what we don't yet have words for. The questions that called me into art were the same ones that eventually called me into this work: What does it mean to be alive? How do we make a life that feels honest? How do we love and be loved without losing ourselves?
I'm a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Washington State, trained in existential and psychodynamic therapy, with additional training in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, somatic approaches, and Non-Violent Communication. I work with adults navigating anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, grief, OCD, identity, and the long, slow questions of meaning.
In our work, you can expect warmth, real presence, and a willingness to take your experience seriously — not as a problem to fix, but as a life worth understanding.
Why Natura
A name for what's most human in us.
Natura is Latin for nature — both the world outside us and the deeper nature inside us. As technology accelerates and the world grows louder, I think it becomes more important, not less, to lean into what is most human in us: our embodiment, our longings, our capacity for honest relationship.
That's the work I want to do — and the work I hope we might do together.
If something here resonates, I'd be glad to talk.