James Bovino
(He/Him)
✔️ Accepting New Clients
🗺️ Minnesota
💻 Both In Person and Telehealth
📅 Tuesday-Friday mornings, Limited afternoon and weekend hours
🎂 18+
✉️ james@edgeswellness.com
☎️ 612-293-5202
🎓Practicum Student, MA Clinical Mental Health, Adler Graduate School (2023-25)
You are the expert on your life and the significance of your own experiences; in the therapeutic relationship, it is your values and goals that are most important. It would be a great honor to collaborate with you on your journey to becoming the person you wish to be and in creating the life you wish to live. I work from a person-centered perspective, incorporating existential and Adlerian theories, and believe we each have a right to self-determination and life satisfaction and already have the strength and internal tools to build the life we want. I see the human experience as occurring within specific biological, social, and historical systems and that the current social and political configuration is oppressive, privileging whiteness, heterosexuality, cis-genderism, wealth and capitalistic thinking. I believe that relational therapy can be a primary tool of human liberation, and that authentic, mutually empathetic relationships can integrate us with our truest selves and help us to find our place and purpose in our communities.
I will always approach our work together with humility and curiosity, will seek to learn as much as I can about you and your experience, and am committed to being responsive to feedback. I celebrate all expressions of love, sexuality and sensuality and the beautiful diversity of human relationship configurations, identity, and ways of being and knowing in the world.
I am currently enrolled at Adler Graduate School. I am also a part time intern at Fraser, working with neuro-divergent youth and adults from a person-centered perspective.
In my past careers, I worked as a theater artist. I also worked for many years in food and food systems. In my free time I enjoy writing, reading, walking and listening to music. I am an avid gardener and an accidental animist.