James O'Neill is a licensed clinical professional counselor, teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and hypnotherapist who works with people through change, uncertainty, and personal transformation. Before entering the mental health field, he played golf and rugby and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bangladesh. His work brings together psychology, mindfulness, and hypnosis with a long-standing inquiry into questions that do not fit neatly inside a clinical framework. He wrote Magnetic Selecting from inside those questions, not above them. He is the founder of Journey Mindfulness, hosts the podcast Make Your Own World, and writes Dark Night Alchemy on Substack. He is based in Maryland and works internationally as a psycho-spiritual guide.