About Denise
Denise Owen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with decades of hands-on experience. She uses clear, practical support to help people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, relationship strain, or life changes. She has worked in hospitals, psychiatric settings, and outpatient programs across several states.
That history gives her a wide view of different struggles and real-world coping skills. Denise explains options simply and asks clients what matters most to them before choosing a path forward.
Background and approach
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She starts by learning a person’s goals and builds a modest plan together. If one approach isn’t helpful, she adjusts the methods rather than insisting on a single path.
Denise draws from several well-known approaches, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavior methods, dialectical skills, client-centered listening, and mindfulness practices. She blends techniques to fit everyday life rather than using jargon or complex routines. Outside of clinical work she has taught community college, led homeschool classes, and published two children’s books.
Those interests shape a practical, curious bedside manner that values learning and creativity. She encourages people to see therapy as a steady, useful habit that helps them navigate stress and regain control. Denise works from North Carolina and applies her long experience to help people find steady, manageable changes in how they cope and relate.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values; it can help with anxiety, low motivation, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives practical tools to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related struggles. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and calm the mind, which supports stress, sleep, and emotion regulation.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Denise uses a collaborative process to see what fits each person's goals and preferences. She typically begins by assessing needs, tries a method, and adjusts plans if something feels off rather than sticking with one technique rigidly.
Online formats allow the same therapeutic ideas to be practiced in everyday life. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and interactive skill work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support short updates, coaching between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit consistent therapy into a busy schedule and to practice new skills in real-world moments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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