About Denise
Denise O Connor is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with seven years of clinical experience. She practices from Kentucky and works with common concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, and sleep problems. Denise uses straightforward and practical methods so people can see progress over a small number of focused sessions.
She favors Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when they fit a person's goals. Denise also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and a client-centered approach to help with emotion regulation and to keep sessions grounded in what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
These methods are used to address stress, grief, addictions, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and related concerns. Her background includes work at a community mental health center and the Veterans Health Administration. That variety of settings shaped how she structures treatment - clear goals, measurable steps, and practical skills between visits.
She often uses brief, goal-focused plans so progress can be tracked. Denise aims to make sessions easy to fit into busy lives. She offers evening and weekend appointment times and responds to messages promptly, usually within 12 hours.
She explains approaches plainly and helps people choose what feels most useful. People who reach out can expect calm, direct guidance and a focus on skills they can use right away. Denise frames the work as a collaborative effort to reduce symptoms, improve sleep, and build everyday coping strategies.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Denise frequently uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and to clarify what matters most in life. ACT is often helpful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for sleep problems, which focuses on changing unhelpful sleep habits and thoughts to improve rest and daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Denise will discuss options and tailor methods based on goals, symptoms, and what feels comfortable. She treats this as a collaborative process and checks in regularly to adjust the plan if something isn’t helping.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls provide face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and deeper conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share between sessions and get brief support when needed. These formats help fit therapy into evenings or weekends and make it easier to keep consistent appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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