About Denise
Denise Cowley is a Florida-licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. She focuses on practical steps to reduce stress and anxiety, manage bipolar symptoms, and address trauma and self-esteem concerns. Denise believes people know their story best and brings a respectful, supportive presence to sessions.
She listens first and works from the client’s goals. Conversations are straightforward and focused on small, achievable changes. Denise helps people break problems into manageable parts and build on strengths they already have.
How Denise works
Her approach blends client-centered care with methods that target thinking patterns and motivation. That can mean practicing new coping skills, trying small behavioral experiments, or setting clear short-term goals to see progress quickly. Sessions balance reflection with hands-on strategies.
Denise also attends to related issues like attachment, adoption and foster care histories, caregiver stress, substance concerns, and relationship or family-of-origin struggles. She supports people dealing with life transitions, grief around illness, and impulse-related difficulties. Her work often covers complex, overlapping challenges rather than a single issue.
People who prefer direct, collaborative conversation tend to do well with her style. Denise offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. She aims to help people move from feeling stuck toward clearer choices and steadier routines.
Denise lists 4 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s priorities. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects what is shared, and helps people identify their own next steps. This is useful when someone wants a supportive space to sort out feelings and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. Sessions include practical exercises such as testing unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or manage mood swings. That approach can help with stress, anxiety, and bipolar symptom management.
Denise treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust plans based on what helps. Clients shape the focus and pace of work together with the therapist.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is close to an in-person session and works well for deeper conversations. Phone calls are a lower-bandwidth option and can fit into a busy schedule. Chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, and support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting sessions into real life.
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