About Denise
Denise VonSchmidt is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 20 years of experience. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, relationship concerns, and parenting strain. Her style is warm and direct, focused on practical steps people can use right away.
Denise uses a person-centered stance that treats people with respect and dignity. She listens first, then works with each person to set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions blend cognitive-behavioral tools, mindfulness practices, and solution-focused strategies to address day-to-day problems and bigger life changes. She aims to help people find their own answers rather than imposing solutions. In session that looks like asking clear questions, offering simple behavioral experiments, and practicing skills until they fit into daily life.
Denise can be gentle and encouraging, and also firm when a straightforward push will help someone move forward. Over two decades she has supported people through grief, anger, self-esteem struggles, eating and sleep issues, and career transitions. She also helps with intimacy concerns, coping after trauma, compassion fatigue, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder.
People who come to her often want a practical approach they can use between sessions. Denise works with each person to build strategies that match their routine and priorities. She offers services in English and can work with clients across state lines as an international option allows.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Denise uses client-centered work to focus on each person's priorities and values, creating a respectful space where goals are co-created. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is also a core tool she uses to pinpoint unhelpful thinking and try out small behavior changes that ease symptoms and improve daily functioning. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is used when relationship patterns and emotional bonds need attention, helping people name emotions and shift interactions that keep problems in place.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Denise will talk with you about your goals and preferences and suggest a mix of methods that fit your situation. Together you decide what to try, review what helps, and adjust as progress is made so the plan stays relevant.
Online therapy lets people access these approaches in flexible ways. Video calls are used for full sessions and skill practice, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins, homework, or coaching between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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