About Denise
Dr. Denise Petrelli-Holst is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 26 years in the helping professions. She combines practical experience from many fields to offer straightforward support.
Her style is flexible and focused on finding methods that fit each person. Her career path includes time in the auto industry, mentoring and tutoring, teaching and art therapy, and running businesses. Those roles shaped a toolbox of practical skills she brings into sessions.
How Denise works
She uses that background to help people sort priorities, make decisions, and build coping strategies. Clients can expect a collaborative, down-to-earth approach. She draws on several evidence-based methods to help with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, grief, trauma, and self-esteem concerns.
Sessions often include clear steps, skills practice, and attention to the client’s values and goals. Dr. Petrelli-Holst also addresses life transitions such as career shifts, divorce and separation, and aging concerns.
She supports people facing chronic illness, cancer, and caregiving strain, and she helps with issues like body image, eating and food-related problems, money worries, and isolation. Her work blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive-behavioral techniques, attachment-focused ideas, dialectical behavior strategies, and a client-centered stance. The focus is on what helps a person move forward.
She offers services from Wisconsin and works in English.
Denise lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and building practical skills to change behavior, which often helps with stress, mood, and coping. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of connecting and regulating emotions. Finding the right approach is part of the process. Dr. Petrelli-Holst will collaborate with each person to test methods and adjust as goals and needs become clearer. Sessions often mix techniques so the work fits real life rather than a single label. Online formats offer practical advantages. Video calls let people meet face to face when schedules or travel make in-person sessions difficult. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief coaching, ongoing check-ins, or a way to process between appointments. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.Start online instead of waiting
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