About Vanessa
Vanessa Stapleton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia who helps people coping with stress and anxiety. She uses a practical, goal-focused style to help people find workable solutions. Vanessa keeps sessions straightforward so parents and busy people can follow the plan between visits.
She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas and client-centered principles to identify patterns and build new skills. Sessions are tailored to each person's situation, with attention to building self-esteem, managing anger, and handling grief.
Background and approach
Vanessa also addresses addictions and mood concerns using step-by-step strategies people can practice at home. Vanessa takes a strengths-based approach that looks for what already works in a person's life. She focuses on small, achievable steps that lead to steady change rather than quick fixes.
People learn to recognize unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and measure progress over time. Her work includes helping with relationship strain, intimacy-related issues, career stress, and feelings of isolation or loneliness. She also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, or compassion fatigue, and considers how aging or veteran experiences shape current struggles.
With twelve years of experience, Vanessa offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck. It focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward a more meaningful life, which can be useful for persistent anxiety or stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, often used for anxiety, depression, and mood concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Vanessa will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences. That might mean using CBT tools for symptom management, adding ACT techniques for values-driven change, or blending ideas from attachment-focused work when relationship patterns are central.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face to face for full sessions. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options help people fit therapy into school, work, or family schedules and make it easier to maintain steady progress.
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What this therapist 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
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