About D.
D. Jesse Bruesch is a licensed professional counselor with ten years of experience helping people move past trauma, depression, and relationship strain. He works with issues related to identity and self-esteem, and he often supports people dealing with painful or shame-filled experiences.
Jesse emphasizes clear goals and steady progress in sessions. Jesse takes a practical approach to therapy. He helps people make a plan, set small steps, and track progress.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding what gets in the way and trying manageable tools to shift thought patterns and behaviors. He explains ideas plainly and keeps the work focused on the client’s goals. Many people come to him after traumatic experiences.
He has spent substantial time treating post-traumatic stress in its different forms, including complex and delayed responses. He also addresses mood disorders, compulsive behaviors, and the fallout from infidelity, divorce, or other relationship ruptures. He works with concerns that intersect identity and mental health, including gender dysphoria and LGBT-related issues.
Jesse also supports people facing guilt, shame, and role changes such as fatherhood or end-of-life caregiving. He aims to provide a steady, nonjudgmental space to sort through difficult feelings. Jesse practices in Oklahoma as an LPC - licensed professional counselor.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. The first step is a short questionnaire to match goals and schedule an initial meeting.
How evidence-based techniques fit into online therapy
EMDR-like trauma processing approaches focus on helping people move through painful memories so those memories have less emotional charge. These approaches are often used for different types of post-traumatic stress and can help reduce the intensity of flashbacks or nightmares.Cognitive behavioral methods look at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. Sessions use simple exercises to spot unhelpful thinking, test new behaviors, and build better coping skills for depression, anxiety, or relationship problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust based on the client’s goals and preferences. This collaborative process helps identify what feels most useful and sustainable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between longer visits. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity of care when schedules change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Arkansas
- Languages
- English