About Denise
Denise Marie is a licensed counselor who brings 25 years of clinical experience to her practice. She holds an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential and a Virginia Licensed Professional Counselor credential, and she focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, mood concerns, and ADHD. Denise uses straightforward, practical approaches and listens closely to each person's story before planning next steps.
Her work often centers on common life challenges like grief, relationship and communication problems, career shifts, and parenting strain.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with trauma, eating and sleep issues, anger, and impulsivity. Denise offers coaching-style help for motivation and behavior change alongside therapy for deeper emotional concerns. Denise blends several therapeutic methods to fit the person in front of her.
She uses client-centered conversation to build trust, cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and mindfulness skills to reduce reactivity. She also draws on acceptance and commitment principles and elements of dialectical behavior strategies when they match a client's needs. Sessions emphasize clear goals and practical tools.
Denise helps people set realistic steps, practice new skills between meetings, and track small improvements. Her style is direct but compassionate, aiming to make the work feel understandable and useful. She provides services by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging for adults living in Virginia.
Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and pick actions that match their personal values. It is often used for anxiety, low motivation, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavioral experiments to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes a nonjudgmental, respectful conversation so people feel heard and can find their own solutions.Denise works collaboratively to find the best fit among these approaches. She listens to each person's goals, tries techniques in session, and adjusts the plan based on what helps most. Choosing an approach is a shared process rather than a one-time decision.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for a full-session conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when video isn't practical or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, homework support, or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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