About Denise
Denise Carey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of experience in behavioral health in Pennsylvania. She works with adults across a wide range of concerns and brings a calm, steady approach to conversations about change. Denise aims to create a space where people feel heard and respected as they sort out next steps.
She helps people dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, grief, addiction, and trauma. She also supports those managing bipolar symptoms, ADHD, anger, and relationship struggles.
How Denise works
Additional areas she focuses on include caregiver stress, attachment and abandonment wounds, blended family challenges, and end-of-life concerns. Denise uses practical methods that match each person's goals. She leans on Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters most to the client and uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She also draws on the Gottman Method for relationship work, mindfulness for grounding, and Motivational Interviewing to help with change. Her sessions tend to be warm and collaborative. She treats people as the leader of the process and helps build a clear plan with small, doable steps.
Crisis assessment experience informs how she responds when someone is in immediate distress. People who prefer a straightforward, respectful style often find her helpful. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
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What Denise works with
The areas below are the ones Denise selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Approaches that shape online care
Denise uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters most to each person and build sessions around their priorities. This approach helps when someone needs a listening space and a therapist who adapts to their pace.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and then practice new choices. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and many everyday problems that respond to skill-building.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Denise collaborates with clients to match methods to goals, needs, and preferences. If something isn't working, she adjusts the plan and tries another way to reach the same aim.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls are helpful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging allow for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping treatment consistent and convenient.
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