About Denise
Denise Venitelli is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship challenges, and trauma. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. She acknowledges the courage it takes to seek help and aims to make sessions feel steady and straightforward.
With 27 years of experience, she draws on methods that center the client and build stronger connections. Denise listens for underlying attachment patterns and helps people understand how past relationships affect current struggles.
How Denise works
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments that change day-to-day life. Her work often centers on family concerns, parenting stress, caregiving burdens, and challenges tied to adoption or attachment issues. She supports people dealing with chronic illness, fertility struggles, separation or divorce, and midlife transitions.
Denise also addresses issues like compassion fatigue, career stress, and problems with sleep or anger. Sessions are collaborative and aim to set clear, manageable goals. She helps clients build skills for emotion regulation, improve communication, and repair relational patterns.
Practical tools and short exercises are offered between sessions when helpful. Denise practices in New Jersey as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Therapy is offered in English and tailored to each person’s needs and pace.
She encourages people to take the next step when they feel ready and provides steady support through change.
Denise lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
How attachment and evidence-based methods work online
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people notice patterns in close relationships and how those patterns shape feelings and reactions. It focuses on building safety and clearer connection in everyday interactions, which can ease anxiety and improve intimacy.Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s perspective first. The therapist listens without judgment, reflects what is said, and helps the client find their own solutions. This approach supports self-esteem, decision-making, and recovering from loss or shame.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and small behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches practical skills to test unhelpful beliefs and try different actions that often change mood and functioning over time.
Choosing the best approach is a joint process. Denise will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they’ll adjust methods as needed so therapy fits the problem and the person’s pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat or text-based messaging works well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone wants to work in short, written exchanges. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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