Jim Carson(He/Him/His)

Jim Carson, PhD is a highly experienced psychologist providing teletherapy in 40+ states. His approach emphasizes mindfulness to develop one’s capacities for presence, love, joy, and wellbeing. Although effective in treating a wide range of issues including anxiety and depression, he specializes in three types of concerns:

Trauma therapy: When post-traumatic stress keeps you from working well, having relationships, or enjoying life, this is PTSD. Trauma work often includes narrative exposure, EMDR, parts work, and other strategies. As trauma heals, you gain emotional closure and restore a sense of security, hope, and joy.

Transpersonal psychotherapy: Who we are boils down to much more than just our physical bodies and rational minds. While not associated with any particular form of religion or any particular faith-based beliefs, this therapy draws upon the great wisdom traditions, strengths-based therapy, and Jungian therapy. Difficulties are included as meaningful pathways that can teach us how to live more fully and skillfully.

Psychedelic integration: Promising results have emerged recently from clinical trials of psychedelic-assisted therapies for depression, anxiety, PTSD, and substance use disorders. This is a unique service for clients who seek a safe, confidential space to unpack psychedelic experiences. Dr Carson is a Certified Psychedelic-assisted Therapy Provider (awarded by Integrative Psychiatry Institute). Note that this does not include administration of psychedelic medicines.

Prior to becoming a clinical psychologist, Dr Carson immersed himself in practicing and teaching meditation for many years. Together with his wife Kimberly Carson, MPH, he developed and clinically tested several innovative yoga and meditation-based clinical treatments, including the Mindful Yoga program; and New Harbinger recently published Dr Carson’s Mindful Yoga book, Relax into Yoga for Chronic Pain.

Currently, Dr Carson’s primary employment is as Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, and Psychiatry, at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.