About Denise
Dr. Denise Petrelli-Holst is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 26 years in the helping professions. She brings a wide range of prior roles to counseling, including work in industry, education, art therapy, and business consulting.
This blend gives her practical insight into everyday stress and life transitions. She focuses on common struggles such as anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, burnout and compassion fatigue, ADHD, and mood concerns like bipolar disorder.
Background and approach
Her practice addresses life changes, career questions, and relationship or family challenges from an individual perspective. Her style is open and flexible. Sessions tend to be collaborative and down-to-earth.
She aims to find methods that fit each person rather than forcing a single technique. Dr. Petrelli-Holst uses a variety of therapeutic approaches to match different needs.
Those approaches include acceptance and commitment strategies, cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-focused work, client-centered methods, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She picks tools based on what helps the person move forward. People meet her and talk through practical steps for coping, managing anxiety, and making choices that feel aligned with their values.
Her background in business and education often helps when clients are sorting career or life-purpose questions. She encourages people to take ownership of the decisions that shape their path.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking committed action toward those values, which can help with anxiety and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to shift them, often useful for panic, worry, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy examines patterns in relationships and how early bonds influence current reactions, which can help with trust, communication, and relationship-related stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your concerns and try methods that match your goals and preferences. Over a few sessions she will adjust the plan so it fits your pace and what helps most.
Online therapy with Dr. Petrelli-Holst is available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text can fit quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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