About Vanessa
Vanessa Stapleton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship struggles. She works in a practical, goal-focused way and helps people build coping skills and stronger self-esteem. Vanessa aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can explore problems and try new strategies.
With 12 years of experience, she draws on several therapy approaches to match a client's needs.
How Vanessa works
Sessions are tailored to the person and concentrate on real-world steps that improve daily life. Vanessa emphasizes collaboration and practical tools that a person can use between sessions. Her work includes support for mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder, substance and alcohol issues, and challenges around intimacy, anger, and social anxiety.
She also addresses career stress, caregiver fatigue, isolation, codependency, and issues commonly faced by women and veterans. Vanessa uses methods from acceptance and commitment approaches, cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-informed work, client-centered principles, and dialectical behavior strategies. Those methods are adapted to the problem at hand rather than applied in a rigid way.
Sessions often include problem-solving, skill building, and values-based planning. People who choose Vanessa can expect straightforward feedback and concrete practices to try between visits. Her approach balances practical solutions with support and understanding.
Those interested in starting are guided through a simple matching and scheduling process.
Vanessa lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Vanessa works with
The areas below are the ones Vanessa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that reflect their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify patterns of thinking and behavior that worsen symptoms and teaches practical strategies to change them. CBT often helps with depression, anxiety, and mood disorders. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns formed over time and how they affect current connections; it can help with intimacy issues and communication problems.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust techniques based on what helps. Clients and therapist decide collaboratively which strategies to continue and which to change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for more in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers no video. Live chat or text messaging can help with brief check-ins, grounding exercises, or when a shorter touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while preserving continuity of care.
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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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