About Denise
Denise Cooper is a licensed clinical social worker who draws on two decades of practice to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. She uses straightforward, person-focused care and starts by listening to what matters most to each person. Denise keeps language simple and practical so parents and busy adults can follow along easily.
Her work often centers on attachment issues, intimacy concerns, and the effects of past abuse or trauma.
How Denise works
She also supports people dealing with grief, parenting strain, career stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. Denise pays attention to how family of origin and communication patterns shape current difficulties. In sessions she blends client-centered collaboration with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practice.
That means clients help set goals while learning clear tools to manage thoughts, emotions, and reactions. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused elements are used to build momentum and practical next steps. Denise has specific experience supporting people on the autism spectrum and those facing fertility, divorce, or abandonment-related issues.
She also addresses body image, codependency, commitment fears, anger, and self-esteem struggles. Her approach aims to increase day-to-day functioning and emotional connection. Based in New York, Denise offers contact in English and provides multiple remote formats so people can choose what fits their life.
She works with clients to set a pace that feels manageable and focused on real-world change.
Denise lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships affect current connections and trust. Online sessions explore patterns in close relationships and help people practice new ways of relating and communicating that reduce anxiety and conflict.Client-Centered Therapy centers on the client's perspective and goals. In a remote setting the therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and follows the client's lead while offering empathy and validation to help people clarify what they want to change.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches simple, evidence-informed strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. In online work this often means setting small homework tasks between sessions and reviewing progress by phone or chat.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Denise works collaboratively to match methods to a person's needs, goals, and preferences. She will check in regularly and adjust techniques so they fit the client's pace and life demands.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to add flexibility. Video is useful for full sessions and nonverbal cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works well for brief check-ins or when someone prefers written communication. These options help people fit therapy into workdays, caregiving schedules, or busy routines.
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