About Denise
Denise Cooper is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in New York with 20 years of experience. She centers sessions on the person in front of her and keeps therapy straightforward. Denise focuses on practical steps that help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the everyday strain of parenting and work.
She also works with people dealing with trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and ADHD. Denise prefers a client-centered style that starts with what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
She listens for attachment patterns and life events that shape current reactions. From there she blends cognitive-behavioral techniques and mindfulness exercises to build clearer thinking and steadier coping skills. Her background includes long-term clinical work with people navigating trauma and attachment wounds and with individuals on the autism spectrum.
She brings two decades of experience to help people untangle communication problems, codependency, control issues, and feelings of emptiness or abandonment. Sessions aim for small, useful changes rather than complicated theory. Expect a collaborative pace: Denise will ask about daily routines, relationships, and what feels hardest right now.
She uses motivational interviewing to clarify goals and to support steady progress. Conversations can include skill practice, thought reframing, and short assignments to try between meetings. Denise offers multiple ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
She works with people across many life concerns such as career strain, fertility stress, compassion fatigue, and LGBT issues. The focus is on helping people find more balance and satisfaction in day-to-day life.
How Denise blends approaches for online care
Denise combines client-centered work with cognitive-behavioral techniques to make online sessions practical and goal-focused. Client-centered therapy means sessions begin with what the person brings and follow their pace, which helps with relationship, identity, and parenting concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches ways to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to notice how early patterns show up in current relationships. Together the therapist and client decide which approach to emphasize, testing what feels most useful. This collaborative process helps tailor sessions to problems like trauma recovery, communication problems, ADHD-related challenges, or coping with life changes.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help make therapy flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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