About Vanessa
Vanessa Stapleton welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, or big life changes. She writes in plain terms and helps clients set clear, manageable goals. Vanessa is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 12 years of experience based in Georgia.
Her style is practical and focused on what helps in daily life. She blends straightforward talk with skills practice. Sessions typically look at thoughts, behaviors, and relationships to find small changes that add up.
Background and approach
Vanessa uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral strategies and client-centered methods to build coping skills and self-esteem. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values. Vanessa works with concerns including depression, bipolar symptoms, addictions, relationship and intimacy challenges, anger, and career stress.
She also supports people dealing with loneliness, guilt and shame, and compassion fatigue. Her background includes work with mood disorders and veteran and armed forces issues among other focus areas. In sessions she helps clients notice patterns, set practical goals, and try tools between meetings.
Communication and problem-solving skills are common topics. Sessions are adjusted to each person's needs and paced to match what they can manage. People who value clear direction and a collaborative style often find this approach helpful.
Vanessa aims to empower clients to make steady progress and apply new skills to everyday situations.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online sessions
Vanessa commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, mood concerns, and habit change. She also draws on client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening, empathy, and building the client's own solutions to increase self-esteem and confidence.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is another approach she uses to help clients identify personal values and take committed steps toward them. ACT is useful when someone feels stuck or is coping with difficult emotions while trying to move forward. Finding the right approach is part of the work; the therapist and client decide together which methods fit the person's goals, preferences, and life situation.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, while phone can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth needs. Live chat or messaging can work for shorter check-ins, skills practice, or when people prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep progress moving between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English