James Liles, LPC

James Liles is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 14 years of experience in clinical counseling. He holds two master’s degrees from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Louisiana Tech University, and a minor in military science from Grambling State University. Early in his career he earned a teaching qualification and was licensed as a special education teacher EC-12 and as a secondary educational counselor.

His work spans multiple settings, including private practice in Killeen, Texas, where he supported service members returning with combat-related trauma. He has trained in EAGALA equine-assisted therapy techniques and has extensive experience working with teens, couples, and families addressing behavioral and relational challenges. In recent years he has applied his skills to corporate wellness, resiliency programming, and life coaching initiatives.

James’s clinical interests include addictions, relationship and family dynamics, career concerns, coping with life changes, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting challenges, and depression. He also focuses on related areas such as abandonment and attachment issues, caregiver stress, co-morbidity, communication problems, dissociation, divorce and separation, substance addiction, feelings of emptiness, fatherhood issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and impulsivity.

His therapeutic style is eclectic and client-centered, combining Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential and Jungian perspectives, Motivational Interviewing, and Narrative Therapy to match methods to each person’s needs. He places a strong emphasis on presence and building authentic therapeutic relationships as central to the healing process. Outside of his professional life he enjoys cooking, exercising, and spending time with his spouse, and he maintains self-care practices that support his work.