About Denise
Denise Hamilton brings 15 years of clinical practice to her work with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. She is a LICSW and an LMSW based in Michigan. Denise aims to build a steady, down-to-earth space where people can be candid and feel heard.
She shapes each session to the person in front of her rather than using a single method for everyone. Conversations focus on how thoughts, feelings, and behavior connect.
How Denise works
Denise uses practical tools to help people cope, make decisions, and build everyday resilience. Her background includes work with people facing trauma, relationship challenges, parenting strain, career transitions, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and bereavement. That experience informs a flexible approach to problems like codependency, abandonment, body image, and communication difficulties.
Denise also draws on experience from leadership roles in executive and nonprofit settings to offer coaching for career development and professional confidence. Her sessions often blend therapeutic work and coaching to target performance, decision making, and work-life balance. Expect collaboration in sessions.
Denise prefers active participation that matches each person’s communication style. She brings patience, practical suggestions, and occasional warmth and humor while helping people set goals and practice new ways of handling stress and conflict.
Denise lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LICSW, LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How Denise’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice their thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and making changes that matter. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current patterns and helps people create safer ways of relating to others. It can be helpful for connection problems and attachment issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Denise will collaborate with the person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adjusts the plan over time and checks in about what is working and what needs to change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is difficult. Chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, tracking progress, or when a quick touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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