About James
James "Chad" Settle is a licensed clinical social worker who practices in Kentucky. He brings eight years of hands-on experience in mental health and social work to his sessions. Chad combines life experience with clinical work to help people manage everyday struggles.
Chad focuses on stress and anxiety and on the ways those problems affect daily life. He also helps with parenting concerns, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
He works with people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, aging and geriatric matters, and caregiver stress. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth. Chad aims to make conversations clear and to offer concrete steps people can try between sessions.
He pays attention to communication patterns, boundary work, and coping skills that fit each person's circumstances. He has experience with chronic pain, illness, and disability and with overlapping concerns such as codependency, body image, and commitment issues. Chad also addresses family structure questions like blended family challenges and problems that come up after major losses or disasters.
People who come to him can expect a direct but compassionate style. Chad focuses on building strengths, restoring balance, and moving toward goals at a manageable pace. He practices as James "Chad" Settle, LCSW, in Kentucky and conducts sessions in English.
Therapeutic tools and online access
Many of Chad's sessions draw on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and on building practical coping skills. One common approach helps people identify stress and anxiety triggers, test unhelpful thoughts, and practice new thinking in daily life to reduce worry and reactivity. Another approach emphasizes skill building for communication and emotion management so people can handle anger, boundary issues, and parenting challenges more effectively.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Chad works with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences, and he adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients help set goals and pick strategies they can try between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and face-to-face rapport. Phone sessions can fit a shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging let people send notes or get brief support between meetings and can be easier to fit around work or caregiving schedules. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to use in everyday life.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Chad help with?
What is his general approach in sessions?
How much clinical experience does he have?
What are his credentials and where is he based?
Which languages are used in sessions?
What session formats does he offer online?
How are fees and payments handled?
How do I begin working with him?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.