James Ott

James Ott brings to his Salt Lake City practice a broad clinical foundation — one built across individual, couples, and family work, as well as group settings and crisis intervention. That range lets him meet clients at very different points in their lives, whether they are navigating a slow-building struggle or something that feels urgent and overwhelming. He holds licensure as a Clinical Social Worker and offers sessions online as well as in person.

The people James works with are dealing with a wide spectrum of concerns: addiction — including alcohol, substances, internet and gaming use, gambling, and sexual compulsivity — alongside trauma and abuse recovery, mood and anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and the kind of burnout that quietly hollows out a career. He works with teenagers, young adults, men, and women, and is experienced in formal assessment and DSM-based diagnosis and treatment.

Couples and families are a significant part of his practice, and he is attentive to the ways modern habits reshape closeness — the phone that stays face-up at the dinner table, the argument that spirals through a text thread instead of getting resolved. His approach to recovery and healing is structured and grounded, with an Intensive Outpatient Program available for those managing substance use alongside the rest of their lives.