About Denise
Denise Owen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with decades of hands-on experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, relationship problems, and addiction. She combines a practical, down-to-earth style with an emphasis on clear goals and steady progress. Denise listens first and works with each person to set the direction of care.
She earned a Master of Social Work and has been a licensed clinician since 1993. Her work has spanned inpatient and outpatient settings, including psychiatric and medical hospitals and community agencies across several states.
Background and approach
That range brought experience with hospice patients, people living with long-term psychiatric conditions, and those coping with trauma and loss. Denise favors an assessment-first approach. She asks about strengths, daily routines, and what the person wants to change.
Then she suggests methods and checks in about how they are working. If an approach isn’t helpful, she shifts to something else rather than pushing a single method. Her practice draws on straightforward techniques from cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness, and acceptance-based approaches.
She also uses client-centered listening and skills drawn from dialectical behavior work when emotion regulation or intense stress is a concern. Sessions focus on practical strategies people can try between meetings. Outside clinical work she has taught community college psychology and homeschool classes, and she has published two children’s books.
Denise aims to make therapy feel like a useful, repeatable habit - something people do that helps them manage life’s hard moments.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It’s useful for anxiety, avoidance, and big life changes because it focuses on small, meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches practical skills to change thought patterns and behaviors that keep problems going. It works well for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger by giving concrete tools to practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Denise works with clients to assess goals, preferences, and what feels doable. Together they try methods and adjust the plan when needed so the approach fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online sessions can make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and work with exercises together. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for short check-ins, skill prompts, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options provide flexibility for different schedules and communication styles while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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