Denise Adeline Muse
Experienced LCSW for practical family support
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Denise
Denise Adeline Muse is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, mood challenges, and addiction-related struggles. She talks plainly and listens without judgment. Parents reading on a phone will find direct, practical support for parenting concerns, sleeping and eating problems, and relationship and intimacy issues.
Denise brings 20 years of experience in Tennessee and uses approaches that aim to make daily life more manageable. Her sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thinking and promote small, workable changes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is also part of her toolkit to help people clarify values and take steps that match those values. Denise also uses attachment-based ideas to notice patterns in relationships and to help people change them.
She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, which she applies when trauma memories are getting in the way of day-to-day functioning. Her style is client-centered and collaborative. That means she works with each person to set goals and try practical strategies.
Sessions may include short exercises, problem-solving, mindfulness practice, or tracking changes between visits. People can connect by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Denise works in English and practices under Tennessee license LCSW 5194.
How her approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people name what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes because it focuses on practical steps rather than perfect solutions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In online sessions this can mean identifying patterns, testing new behaviors, and using short exercises between meetings to build momentum.
EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is used when past traumatic experiences keep causing trouble now. In an online format Denise can guide the processing work and pair it with grounding and stabilizing practices when needed.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That means trying techniques, checking in about what helps, and adjusting the plan together as therapy progresses.
Online therapy makes sessions more flexible. Video calls let the therapist and client see each other for face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions work when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short check-ins and ongoing support between calls. These options help fit therapy into busy family schedules and make it easier to keep up with progress.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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