About Jesse
Jesse Stapleton is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, and life changes. He works with concerns including trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, parenting challenges, self-esteem, and career stress. Jesse approaches therapy in a straightforward, practical way so people can start feeling a difference sooner.
Jesse draws on seven years of clinical experience in Oklahoma as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Background and approach
He treats emotional strain from caregiving, first responder stress, cancer and hospice concerns, and complex topics such as adoption, aging, and alternative sexual cultures. Jesse also supports people facing ADHD, compassion fatigue, and issues tied to HIV or chronic illness. In sessions he focuses on clear goals and small steps.
He uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and solution-focused work to identify patterns and try new strategies. For trauma-related distress he integrates trauma-focused methods and EMDR techniques to reduce the intensity of difficult memories. Jesse values a collaborative style.
He asks questions, listens, and helps people choose realistic actions between meetings. Motivational interviewing informs how he supports readiness and change without pressure. People can expect practical skills, thought work, and paced processing of painful experiences.
Jesse encourages clients to bring what matters most to them and to move at a comfortable pace toward healing and clearer choices.
Approaches for online healing and practical change
Jesse uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT focuses on skills you can practice between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve mood. He also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to address traumatic memories; this approach helps reduce the emotional charge of difficult memories so they are less disruptive in daily life.He takes a collaborative approach to choosing methods. Together the therapist and client review goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. That way the plan can include short-term problem solving or deeper trauma processing as needed, and it can change as progress is made.
Online therapy with Jesse is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and quick coaching practical between longer sessions, giving more flexibility for people with busy days or irregular schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Arkansas
- Languages
- English