About Denise
Denise Richardson is a counsellor with twenty years of experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief, and work through relationship and family concerns. She uses straightforward, practical conversation to help people make small, steady changes.
Denise begins by looking closely at each person's situation. She matches the approach to the person rather than using one fixed method. Sessions focus on what is bothering someone now and what can realistically change in daily life.
Background and approach
Her work draws on several evidence-informed approaches, including cognitive behavioural techniques and attachment-focused ideas. She also uses acceptance and commitment methods to help people live with difficult feelings while moving towards their values. Denise has worked across cultures and brings that background into sessions when it helps.
She also offers clinical supervision for other therapists and supports their professional development. People see her for a wide range of concerns, including low mood, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting strain, trauma and addiction challenges. She aims to make therapy practical, clear and compassionate so people can carry progress into everyday life.
Approaches and how they work online
Denise commonly uses cognitive behavioural therapy and attachment-based ideas in her work. Cognitive behavioural therapy involves looking at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and trying small behaviour changes to reduce distress and improve routines. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and aims to build safer ways of relating and expressing needs.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Denise will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together choose methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress is reviewed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can help with short check-ins, and messaging suits ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel commitments and make regular contact easier to maintain.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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