About Denell
Denell Ragas is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with eight years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing depression, anxiety, trauma, ADHD, and related mood concerns. Her manner is warm and interactive, with respect and sensitivity at the center of sessions.
Denell blends cognitive-behavioral methods with other practical strategies to help people manage symptoms and build skills. She avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on clear, doable steps clients can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to each person so therapy fits their life and goals. In sessions she pays attention to how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. This helps with panic, low mood, and stress management.
She also uses techniques aimed at trauma recovery and emotion regulation for people who have experienced abuse or post-traumatic stress. Many clients bring concerns about ADHD, impulsivity, concentration, and related frustration. Denell works on organization, routines, and coping strategies that address day-to-day challenges without promising diagnostic services or specific outcomes.
Her practice supports people dealing with grief, life changes, relationship communication issues, and struggles with self-esteem or codependency. She uses short-term problem solving alongside deeper work when needed. The goal is practical progress and clearer direction for daily life.
Online approaches that build practical skills
This therapist uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression. Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process upsetting experiences and learn coping strategies that reduce intense reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Denell will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying approaches, checking what helps, and adapting the plan together rather than sticking to one strategy.
Online sessions are arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are good for full conversations and verbal cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing short coaching and reminders. These options aim to make regular work on skills and coping easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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