About Denise
Denise Marie is a licensed counselor with 25 years of experience. She holds LCPC and LPC credentials and practices in Virginia. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck and who want a steady, practical approach to change.
She draws from several evidence-informed methods to match a person's needs. Sessions often include goal-focused work, learning skills to manage strong emotions, and moments to notice what matters most. The work can involve short-term problem solving or deeper exploration, depending on the person’s goals.
Background and approach
Clients commonly bring stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, and trouble with sleep or eating. Denise also supports people dealing with life transitions, career strain, parenting pressures, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She pays attention to how family of origin and communication patterns shape current struggles.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She combines client-centered care with cognitive-behavioral tools, mindfulness, acceptance strategies, dialectical skills, and motivational interviewing. That blend helps people build coping skills and then practice them in real life.
Denise spent many years working in counseling, art therapy, substance abuse treatment, and clinical supervision. That background informs how she frames goals and tracks progress. New clients are invited to set clear aims up front and revisit them as they move forward.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts while clarifying values and taking action toward what matters. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes by shifting focus from struggle to meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical tools to change thinking patterns and behaviors that fuel anxiety and mood problems, often using short exercises and homework to practice new skills. Mindfulness Therapy trains basic attention and awareness skills to reduce reactivity and improve emotion regulation, which often complements other techniques.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and then suggest methods that fit. That collaborative process means techniques can be mixed and adjusted as progress is tracked over time.
Online therapy with Denise is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed, live chat suits brief exchanges or real-time problem solving, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue care when in-person visits are not convenient.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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