Vanessa Stapleton, LPC

Vanessa Stapleton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, depression, and relationship difficulties. She focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. Sessions aim to strengthen coping skills and build self-esteem while working toward clear goals.

Vanessa uses cognitive behavioral ideas along with person-centered and attachment-informed approaches. She helps clients notice unhelpful thinking, try new behaviors, and practice ways to manage strong emotions. Work in sessions is collaborative and paced to what each person needs.

With 12 years of experience, Vanessa draws on strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) when those methods fit a client's goals. She tailors each session to the problem at hand and the client's strengths. The focus is on usable tools rather than long explanations.

People come for support with grief, intimacy struggles, anger, codependency, and career stress among other concerns. She also supports those coping with bipolar mood changes, addiction, and issues related to aging or military life. Sessions aim to create small, sustainable changes that make daily life easier.

Vanessa meets with clients through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. English-language sessions are offered and international clients are not accepted. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows based on availability.

How Vanessa’s approaches translate to online care

Vanessa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by practicing specific coping skills. ACT emphasizes values and committed action, helping people accept difficult feelings while moving toward what matters to them.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Vanessa will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust those methods as progress unfolds, so therapy stays practical and client-directed.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls are useful for longer therapy sessions with visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a break or require less bandwidth, live chat works for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options give flexibility for different rhythms of life and communication styles.