About Denise
Denise VonSchmidt is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 20 years of experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety and supports those facing depression, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles. She also works with concerns like parenting, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
Her sessions are warm and person-centered. She listens first, then helps clients name goals and try practical steps. Denise aims to help people find the answers they already have and turn those insights into real changes.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and emotion-focused work to fit each person's needs. That mix can mean learning new coping skills, noticing patterns in thinking, or practicing different ways to connect with others. Denise is straightforward when needed and gentle when clients are vulnerable.
Over two decades she has supported people with a broad range of struggles, from intimacy and commitment issues to caregiver stress and body image concerns. She draws on many approaches so the work is practical and focused on daily life rather than abstract theories. Her style centers on respect and acceptance.
Denise aims to create a space where people feel heard and can try new ways of coping. For anyone feeling overwhelmed, she offers steady guidance and clear tools to move forward.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship. It helps people feel heard and clarifies what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve sleep. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name emotions and shift how they connect in relationships and close bonds.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Denise collaborates with each person to choose which methods to try based on their goals and what feels comfortable. She adapts sessions over time, checking in about what’s helping and what needs to change so the plan fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit short check-ins, homework support, or days when a full session isn’t possible. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting work, parenting, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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