About Denell
Denell Ragas is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with eight years of hands-on experience. She works with adults facing depression, anxiety, trauma, and related mood concerns. Her approach is warm and interactive and aims to make therapy feel like a respectful conversation.
She uses practical methods drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Sessions focus on clear skills - for example managing overwhelming thoughts, building routines, and improving emotional regulation.
How Denell works
Solution-focused techniques help set reachable goals and track small steps forward. Denell pays attention to how life events, grief, and stress shape daily choices. She also supports people managing bipolar disorder, ADHD, panic, and social anxiety.
Concerns like codependency, isolation, guilt, and life purpose are part of her work too. Sessions are shaped to individual needs and values. Denell avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on what will actually help someone cope and move forward.
She blends practical skill-building with chances to reflect on deeper patterns. Based in Massachusetts, she offers therapy in English and uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The goal is to give tools that people can use between sessions so progress continues in daily life.
Denell lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Denell works with
The areas below are the ones Denell selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
Practical approaches you can use online
Denell commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people manage distress. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches concrete skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication when feelings feel intense.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Denell will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and daily life. She encourages trying practical strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skill practice, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat supports shorter check-ins or step-by-step work between appointments. These options give flexibility so people can build therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between sessions.
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