About Denise
Denise Stuntzner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than two decades of psychotherapy experience. She practices in Oregon and brings practical, goal-focused help to people navigating stressful and painful life moments. She uses an active and straightforward style in sessions.
Denise combines client-centered listening with hands-on tools to tackle problems. She often blends cognitive behavioral techniques with solution-focused ideas and mindfulness practices. Her background includes work in child and family mental health, domestic violence services, rehabilitation, hospice, medical settings, and hospital inpatient psychiatry.
How Denise works
She has also coordinated wellness programs and worked as an integrated behavioral health clinician in outpatient medical clinics. Denise has experience supervising clinicians in training and has served as a field instructor for a graduate social work program.
Her years in multiple human services roles inform a practical approach to common concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and family challenges, and caregiving stress. In sessions she helps people identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and create step-by-step plans to change them.
She supports people coping with life transitions, chronic health issues, addiction-related concerns, sleep problems, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. Denise aims to build rapport and work collaboratively toward realistic goals. Outside of practice she stays active in swimming and skiing, and values time with her sons, pets, and extended family.
Denise lists 5 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
How Denise’s Approaches Work Online
Denise often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in sessions. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors with clear steps and practice. It can help with anxiety, depression, panic, sleep problems, and coping with life changes. Client-centered work emphasizes listening, empathy, and collaboration so people feel heard as they set their own goals.She also brings mindfulness into sessions to help people notice stress reactions and build simple attention practices. Mindfulness can be useful for managing anxiety, rumination, and chronic stress. Together these methods are used hands-on and adjusted to each person’s goals and pace; Denise will help pick the best mix through conversation and trial, working with the client to find what fits.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and texting allow brief updates, homework check-ins, and flexible communication between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum while addressing stress, relationships, caregiving demands, and other concerns.
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