About Dena
Dena Walker is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on stress and anxiety. She also supports people facing relationship strain, grief, depression, and major life changes. Dena writes short, direct plans that aim to make day-to-day coping easier.
She meets people where they are and treats them with respect and compassion. Dena draws on practical techniques to reduce worry and improve mood. She uses tools that help people notice unhelpful thoughts and shift toward actions that match their goals.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize small, doable steps so progress feels achievable. Her approach also includes skills for handling intense emotions and for calming the body and mind. Mindfulness exercises and attention to the present moment are part of sessions when they fit a person's needs.
Solution-focused methods help identify concrete next steps between meetings. Over a decade of work in counseling settings has given Dena experience with caregiver stress, workplace strain, and financial worries that affect mental health. She pays attention to how guilt, isolation, or panic symptoms show up in daily life and tailors strategies accordingly.
Dena practices in Idaho as an LPC, and she offers sessions in English. She aims to make therapy practical and straightforward, helping people build routines and skills that support long-term coping.
How Dena’s approaches work online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people notice thought patterns that increase worry and then practice different responses. It is often used for anxiety, panic symptoms, and low mood by breaking problems into manageable steps.DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. These tools are useful when feelings feel overwhelming or when someone needs clear strategies to handle intense moments.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Dena will discuss goals and preferences and recommend techniques that match what a person brings to sessions. That collaborative process means plans can change as needs shift over time.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief ongoing contact between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
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