About Denise
Denise Corrado, MD, LCSW, helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She offers steady, compassionate support and practical ways to cope. Her manner is warm and direct, inviting people to find their own answers while staying supported through the process.
She brings 40 years of clinical experience to sessions and works from a trauma-informed perspective. Her practice centers on Gestalt therapy, which focuses on awareness in the present moment and how thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations connect.
Background and approach
That approach is paired with methods that pay attention to the body and nervous system to help people recover from trauma and sexual abuse, and to manage post-traumatic stress. Denise also pays attention to life-stage concerns such as aging or serious health issues like cancer.
She addresses communication problems, dissociation, domestic violence, family of origin issues, forgiveness, and the heavy feelings of guilt or shame. Social anxiety and intimacy-related struggles are also part of her focus. Sessions tend to blend talk and body-awareness techniques so people can notice how emotions show up in the body.
Denise aims to help clients strengthen self-love, repair relationships where possible, and build practical tools for handling stress and anxiety. Her work supports people through big life transitions, grief, and caregiving challenges. She practices in Maryland and conducts sessions in English.
Over time she helps people increase their capacity to tolerate difficult feelings and make clearer decisions about what they want next.
How body-aware and present-focused therapy works online
Gestalt therapy focuses on awareness in the present moment and on how thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations connect. Online sessions use conversation and guided noticing to help people spot patterns that maintain anxiety, relationship stress, or depression. These exercises often include simple in-session awareness tasks and discussion about what comes up afterward.Somatic-oriented methods work with the body's responses to stress and trauma. They include gentle attention to breathing, posture, and sensations to help the nervous system calm and to reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress. This approach can be useful for people recovering from abuse, domestic violence, or dissociation by giving concrete ways to regulate strong reactions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client will assess needs, goals, and preferences and then try techniques that fit the person. Adjustments are made as therapy moves forward so methods align with what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical access. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier when a camera is not desired, and live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins and ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still working with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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