About Denise
Denise Hyland helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, loss, or life changes. She is a licensed mental health counselor, LMHC, working in New York. Denise uses clear, practical steps so people can feel steadier and more capable.
She begins by listening closely to what is happening now and what matters most to each person. Denise aims to help people notice patterns in their thoughts and actions, accept difficult facts, and try small changes that add up.
How Denise works
Sessions are direct and down-to-earth, with language that is easy to follow. Her work draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also uses skills from dialectical behavior approaches to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Trauma-focused methods guide care when past harm affects daily life. Denise brings five years of clinical experience to her practice. Her focus includes relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, addiction concerns, career issues, compassion fatigue, and post-traumatic stress.
She also gives extra attention to domestic violence, forgiveness work, veteran and armed forces issues, and personality disorder challenges. Clients can expect practical tools and steady support aimed at improving day-to-day functioning. Denise emphasizes collaboration and helps people set clear, realistic steps toward their goals.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online healing and growth
Denise commonly uses cognitive-behavioral therapy and trauma-focused therapy in online work. Cognitive-behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. Trauma-focused therapy helps process past hurt and reduce its impact on daily life through structured, step-by-step work.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and then recommend steps to try together. Plans are adjusted as progress is made so the approach fits the person's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and different life situations.
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