Denise Buckingham
Supportive LICSW for adolescents and adults
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Denise
Denise Buckingham is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) with eight years of experience in the mental health field. She works with adolescents, children, and adults on a wide range of concerns such as depression, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and parenting stress.
Denise is based in Massachusetts and offers several online formats including message-based work and live chat, as well as phone and video sessions. Her style blends psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral ideas.
Background and approach
That means she can sit with feelings and life history while also helping people try different thoughts or behaviors to feel better. She tailors the mix to each person’s goals and comfort level. Denise aims to build a straightforward, respectful relationship where people feel heard.
Sessions are conversational and focused on practical steps people can try between meetings. She pays attention to how emotions, thoughts, and behavior interact and discusses simple ways to shift patterns that cause distress. Parents who are worried about sleep, managing stress, or supporting a struggling teen may find a practical ally in her.
She also works with issues like ADHD, grief, eating concerns, and compassion fatigue. Conversations can include coaching around life direction and career concerns when helpful. To begin, visitors follow the site’s Start Therapy flow and complete a short matching questionnaire.
From there they can schedule based on the therapist’s availability and choose formats that fit their routine.
How Denise uses therapy approaches online
Denise draws on cognitive-behavioral therapy and psychodynamic therapy in her online work. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavioral changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Psychodynamic therapy involves talking through emotions and life history to better understand patterns that keep causing pain, which can help with grief, relationship patterns, and long-standing worries.Finding the right approach is collaborative. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. That may mean leaning more on CBT for concrete coping skills or using psychodynamic conversation to unpack deeper issues; the plan can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules, to check in between sessions, or to choose a format that feels less intimidating. The variety of ways to connect supports flexibility while keeping the focus on practical steps and emotional understanding rather than logistics.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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