About Denise
Denise Venitelli is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She works with individuals dealing with grief, trauma, family conflicts, and problems that affect daily life. Denise emphasizes practical steps clients can use right away.
She meets people where they are and values each person’s own knowledge of their story. With 27 years of experience, Denise draws from a few core approaches to guide sessions.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered methods to follow a person’s lead and build strength from existing skills. She also incorporates techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of coping. Denise aims for straightforward conversation and concrete tools.
Sessions often focus on breathing, grounding, planning small changes, and practicing new responses between meetings. She helps people sort through feelings like shame, guilt, or anger and map steps toward clearer choices. People often come for help with relationships, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, career shifts, sleep trouble, or burnout.
She also supports those navigating adoption, caregiving burdens, chronic illness, and questions around identity and life purpose. Denise is based in New Jersey and holds the credential LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She conducts therapy in English and uses several online formats to meet clients’ needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care options
Denise uses client-centered therapy to follow each person’s priorities and build on their strengths. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people name what matters most so they can take small, meaningful steps forward.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thought patterns and behaviors that keep problems like anxiety and sleep trouble going. CBT offers practical exercises and homework to practice new ways of thinking and responding between sessions.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and then suggest techniques that fit their needs. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is working and what isn’t.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people see facial cues and work through emotions in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or video is difficult, and they work well for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing contact, quick check-ins, and written exercises that clients can review later. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into workdays, caregiving routines, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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