About Denise
Denise Adeline Muse is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Tennessee with two decades of experience. She offers calm, steady support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and other tough life changes. Denise aims to create a nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through urgent concerns and plan practical next steps.
Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She prefers straightforward, collaborative conversations that draw on strengths and real-life goals.
How Denise works
Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings as well as understanding the patterns that keep problems going. Denise combines cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance-based ideas to help manage thoughts and emotions. She also uses attachment-informed work to look at how relationships shape current difficulties.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is among the trauma-focused options she offers. Over 20 years she has helped people with a wide range of concerns, including bipolar disorder, addictions, sleep and eating issues, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses topics such as abandonment, attachment issues, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
Her practice includes support for LGBT-related concerns and intimacy-related issues. Sessions are offered in English and are available via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Denise uses a collaborative, strengths-based style and works with each person to set realistic goals and measure progress.
Denise lists 10 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
How Denise’s Methods Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters most to you and taking small actions toward those values while learning to sit with uncomfortable feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues, and some aspects of ADHD. EMDR is a trauma-focused approach that helps process distressing memories and reduce their emotional charge; it can be used for trauma and abuse reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Denise will discuss options with each person and choose methods based on needs, goals, and preferences. She frames that decision as a collaboration and adjusts strategies if something is not helping.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a busy day and take less bandwidth, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and day-to-day life.
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