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Denise Smith

Calm, practical support for life’s hard moments

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Credentials
LPC
Experience
17 years
Licensed in
Texas
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Denise

Denise Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and mood-related concerns. Denise also works with issues around addiction, intimacy, grief, and identity-related challenges.

She aims to create a respectful and compassionate space for each person who reaches out. Denise uses straightforward, practical conversation to identify what matters most to a client. She adapts her approach to fit individual needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all formula.

Background and approach

Sessions focus on real-life skills and choices that can change daily routines and relationships. Her background includes work with a broad range of behavioral health issues, including bipolar disorder, panic attacks, ADHD, and trauma-related difficulties. She also addresses concerns such as codependency, blended family problems, fertility stress, and substance use.

Denise draws on evidence-based tools to help people build coping skills and manage intense emotions. In session she combines client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are also part of her toolkit when they fit a person’s goals.

The goal is to co-create practical steps that feel doable between appointments. People who contact her begin with a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions that fit their life. She offers several online options and accepts international clients.

Denise’s work emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and steady support through change.

Therapeutic approaches that translate well online

Denise often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and practicing different ways of thinking and acting. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, panic, and everyday stressors. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy, which teaches skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving relationships. DBT skills are practical tools that can be practiced between sessions.

Choosing a method is a collaborative process. Denise listens first to understand your goals and daily life. Together you decide which approaches and exercises are the best fit, and adjustments are made as work progresses. The focus is on what helps you make small, manageable changes.

Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. These formats make it easier to work on skills in real time and to keep continuity when life gets busy. They also let people access therapy from where they live while maintaining regular contact with a licensed professional.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What types of concerns does Denise address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, bipolar symptoms, trauma and grief. Additional focus areas include parenting challenges, intimacy issues, and problems related to identity and relationships.
What style of therapy does she use?
Denise blends client-centered listening with practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing when they fit a person’s goals.
How long has she worked in this field?
She has 17 years of professional work experience helping people with a wide range of behavioral health concerns.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
Denise holds a Texas Licensed Professional Counselor credential listed as TX LPC 64999 and practices in Texas.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as options for working together.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Denise?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

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Experience
17 years
Licensed
Texas
Languages
English

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