About Venise
Venise Darisme uses a client-centered approach to help people find practical ways forward. She combines listening with tools that target thoughts, behavior, and daily coping. Venise brings 15 years of experience working with a wide range of concerns.
She holds the credential LCMHC and is also a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC. Venise focuses on common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trouble sleeping. She also supports people dealing with eating concerns, addictions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and intimacy-related issues.
How Venise works
Career worries, parenting strain, anger, and self-esteem challenges are part of her caseload too. Her approach mixes Client-Centered Therapy with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness. For trauma or painful memories she may use EMDR to help reduce distress.
Existential ideas get woven in when people need help with meaning, purpose, or big life changes. Sessions use clear, direct conversation and practical exercises. Venise aims to help people build skills they can use between sessions.
She also addresses family problems, multicultural concerns, and the emotional effects of illness or aging. Venise practices in Virginia and offers sessions in English. She works with people facing hospice and end-of-life questions, immigration issues, intellectual disability concerns, and prejudice or discrimination.
Her background includes work across grief, chronic pain, cancer-related concerns, and body image issues.
Venise lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Venise works with
The areas below are the ones Venise selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building a trusting relationship. Online sessions let the therapist listen closely and follow the client's lead while offering practical feedback and support.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many everyday struggles, and those skills can be practiced between online sessions.
EMDR is a trauma-focused method that helps reduce distress tied to painful memories. When appropriate, elements of EMDR can be used in teletherapy to help people process difficult experiences with guidance from a therapist.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what helps. Clients are invited to share preferences so sessions match their needs and pace.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between live sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into school, work, or caregiving schedules while still using the same therapeutic approaches practiced in person.
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