About Denise
Denise Buckingham is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) with eight years of experience in mental health care. She works with adults and adolescents on everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, and problems with sleep. Denise often helps people dealing with ADHD, addictions, grief, and challenges around self-esteem and life transitions.
Her approach blends open conversation with practical skills. She uses psychodynamic ideas to talk through emotions and past experiences.
Background and approach
She pairs that with cognitive behavioral techniques that look at how thoughts, actions, and feelings interact. Sessions aim to be collaborative and straightforward. Denise listens first, then helps set clear goals together.
She adapts her methods to match each person’s needs and preferences rather than following one fixed plan. Denise enjoys working through both short-term concerns and longer-term patterns. She offers message-based and live chat counseling in addition to phone and video options.
Many people find those formats helpful for fitting counseling into busy schedules. She practices in Massachusetts and holds a Master of Arts and the LICSW credential. If someone wants to get started, Denise suggests a brief questionnaire and a first session to see how the fit feels.
She focuses on building a helpful working relationship and practical steps a person can use between sessions.
How Denise combines approaches online
Denise commonly uses psychodynamic therapy to help people talk through emotions and past experiences in a gentle, reflective way. That approach can help when patterns from earlier life still affect daily mood and relationships.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on the links between thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. CBT offers practical tools for anxiety, sleep issues, mood challenges, and ADHD-related difficulties by teaching specific strategies to change how a person responds to stress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Denise will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs, adjusting as you go. She emphasizes building a working relationship first and then choosing techniques that match your priorities.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a conversation that feels most like an in-person appointment. Phone works well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and messaging can be shorter check-ins, easier to fit into a busy day, or a way to track progress between sessions. These options add flexibility to make regular work on concerns more practical for everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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