About Denise
Denise Hyland is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people handle stress and anxiety. She speaks plainly and meets people where they are. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, with a focus on useful steps you can try between sessions.
She aims to help clients notice what is happening inside them and accept those experiences. From there she helps people change unhelpful thoughts, habits, and beliefs so daily life becomes easier.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical tools that can be practiced outside of therapy. Denise uses cognitive-behavioral methods to identify patterns of thinking that feed anxiety and depression. She also uses dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and coping skills.
Trauma-focused approaches inform how she works with people who have painful past experiences. Clients may bring concerns such as relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, work pressure, or difficulties with anger and self-esteem. She also supports people facing addiction, compassion fatigue, and life transitions.
Additional focus areas include domestic violence, forgiveness work, veteran and armed forces issues, personality disorders, and post-traumatic stress. Denise has five years of experience as a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor - LMHC. She offers straightforward sessions that combine practical exercises, goal-setting, and steady support so people can make progress at their own pace.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and trauma care
Denise commonly uses cognitive-behavioral therapy and trauma-focused therapy in her online work. Cognitive-behavioral therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and low mood. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on understanding how past harms affect present reactions and on learning strategies to manage triggers and painful memories.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs and will together decide which methods to try first. Plans can be adjusted as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different routines. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can be useful for brief check-ins or when writing out thoughts helps. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep up with regular practice between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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