James "Chad" Settle
Support for stress, parenting, and life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About James
James "Chad" Settle is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Kentucky. He brings eight years of clinical experience and a background rooted in the local community. He writes from a practical, faith-informed perspective and aims to help people facing everyday stressors find steadier footing.
He focuses on stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. He also addresses adoption and foster care matters, attachment and blended family issues, caregiver stress, aging and geriatric concerns, body image, chronic illness and pain, and related challenges.
Background and approach
The list of areas reflects a broad practice scope rather than specific guarantees about outcomes. In sessions he uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to talk through problems and build coping skills. He emphasizes straightforward, hands-on strategies that people can use between appointments.
The work is practical and goal-oriented, aimed at making daily life easier to manage. He draws on experience working with Kentucky institutions and systems. That local knowledge helps when someone needs support with community resources or systems navigation.
His approach blends professional training with a familiar, down-to-earth style. People who prefer a direct, compassionate clinician may find his style a good fit. He frames therapy as a team effort focused on small, measurable steps toward better functioning.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered through a range of online formats.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Evidence-based techniques are used to address practical problems and emotions. Cognitive-based approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life actions; this helps with anxiety, stress, and low self-esteem by changing how people think and act. Skills-based coping work teaches concrete strategies for managing anger, intense feelings, and day-to-day stressors so clients have tools to use between sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to figure out what techniques fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions are adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what the person wants to accomplish.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. These options allow for regular check-ins, practice of new skills, and timely support without travel. The flexibility helps people maintain continuity of care and apply what they learn in real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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