About Denise
Denise VonSchmidt is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy challenges, parenting struggles, sleep or eating concerns, and career or life changes. Her style is warm, compassionate, and direct when needed.
She centers the person in sessions and treats people with respect and dignity. Denise believes clients already hold many of their own answers and she guides them toward practical steps to reach their goals.
How Denise works
She blends a person-centered foundation with cognitive-behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. That mix aims to reduce distress, change unhelpful patterns, and build skills people can use between sessions. She also uses emotionally focused ideas and Gottman-informed work for relationship and communication issues.
Denise has helped people with complex concerns such as bipolar mood patterns, grief, compassion fatigue, ADHD, abandonment and attachment questions, blended family and adoption matters, cancer-related stress, and caregiving burdens. She supports those coping with anger, low self-esteem, control issues, and major life transitions. Sessions are practical and focused on small, achievable changes.
Denise is gentle but can be firm to keep progress moving. She aims to create a respectful space where people feel heard and can try new ways of thinking and relating.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on seeing the person first and offering empathy and respect. It helps people build confidence to explore feelings, make choices, and try new behaviors. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, examines how thoughts and habits influence mood and actions and gives concrete tools to change those patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on emotions and attachment needs to improve connection and communication in relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and will suggest starting points. Together they can adjust methods over time so sessions feel relevant and effective for the issue at hand.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet with a licensed professional. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, manage follow-up, and keep momentum between appointments.
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