About Denise
Denise Garcia Loaiza is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nine years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She works with individuals who are facing difficult life changes and relationship strain. Denise speaks English and Spanish and practices from New York.
Her style centers on listening first and helping clients build on their own strengths. She treats each person as the expert on their life and focuses on practical steps that reduce day-to-day overwhelm.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-focused, with room to process emotions and develop coping skills. Denise has worked across a range of concerns related to mood and trauma. She supports people coping with post-traumatic stress, dissociation, and traumatic brain injury symptoms.
She also helps those dealing with caregiver stress, communication problems, family of origin issues, and feelings of guilt and shame. She is experienced addressing domestic violence dynamics, narcissism-related patterns, and multicultural issues that affect mental health. Denise aims to create a space where clients can name problems, try new ways of responding, and track small changes over time.
To begin, she asks about what matters most to the client and co-creates a plan that fits their life. Her approach emphasizes steady progress and practical tools for handling anxiety, mood shifts, and relationship challenges. Denise is available for sessions in English and Spanish.
Approaches that guide online care
Many evidence-based techniques focus on changing how you respond to stress and processing the effects of trauma. One common approach helps people learn concrete coping skills for anxiety and mood symptoms, teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step behavior changes to reduce overwhelm. Another approach focuses on processing traumatic experiences and their emotional impact so symptoms like flashbacks, dissociation, and hypervigilance become easier to manage. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a client's goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs, then suggest methods that fit. Together they adjust the plan over time to find what helps most. Online sessions make it easier to keep therapy consistent. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when camera-free check-ins are preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, quick skill coaching, and staying connected between longer sessions. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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