About Jesse
Jesse Stapleton helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, and major life changes. He is a licensed clinical social worker with seven years of experience and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Jesse emphasizes strengths and collaboration so clients feel heard and guided rather than judged.
He uses straightforward talking, goal-setting, and skill practice. Sessions look at patterns that keep problems going and try small experiments to change them.
How Jesse works
Jesse often draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to challenge unhelpful thoughts and uses trauma-focused tools when past events continue to cause distress. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques help people find motivation and clear next steps. These approaches are used to support people working through career decisions, parenting stresses, caregiving strain, and intimacy-related concerns.
Jesse also helps with issues tied to adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric challenges, and health-related stress such as cancer or HIV/AIDS. He works with people dealing with anger, low self-esteem, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and the practical fallout of separation and divorce. Jesse is comfortable talking about kink, BDSM, and alternative sex culture when it relates to a client's concerns.
He aims to create a space where people can name their goals and practice new ways of handling old problems. Jesse is licensed in Oklahoma as an LCSW. He believes starting therapy takes courage and works to make that first step feel useful and manageable.
Jesse lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Jesse works with
The areas below are the ones Jesse selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
How specific approaches translate to online care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing out new ways of thinking and behaving. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday struggles because it breaks problems into clear, changeable steps.EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, works with memories that continue to cause strong reactions. It uses guided attention and structured processing to reduce the intensity of upsetting memories and the symptoms that come with them.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and past experiences, and then suggest a plan that may combine methods. That plan is revisited and adjusted so it fits the client's needs and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online sessions can be held by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and do longer work, phone sessions can fit into a shorter break or use less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat offer quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, family, or health demands while still focusing on practical skills and progress.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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