About Denise
Denise Mitchell uses a practical, person-centered approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, and life changes. She is Denise Mitchell, MD, LCPC, LPC, and brings 19 years of experience to her work in Maryland. Her style is warm and direct, focused on helping people make realistic choices and build everyday coping skills.
She blends client-centered and cognitive behavioral methods to help people notice unhelpful thinking and experiment with new behaviors.
Background and approach
Solution-focused ideas guide short-term goals and next steps. Trauma-focused techniques are used when past events are affecting daily life. Denise has worked broadly with adults and has experience addressing issues such as grief, anger, low self-esteem, and ADHD.
She also helps people navigate career concerns, caregiving stress, and communication problems. Her background includes education and counseling degrees and further clinical licensure completed in Maryland. Sessions emphasize clear steps and practical tools.
Denise aims to make therapy a collaborative process so people feel involved in decisions and goals. She focuses on immediate strategies that can be used between sessions as well as longer-term change. People meet a therapist who will listen without judgment and help them sort options when decisions feel stuck.
Denise encourages realistic action plans, steady progress, and adapting approaches to each person’s situation.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Denise commonly uses client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral therapy when working online. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely, reflecting what someone says, and helping them find their own solutions; it fits concerns like low self-esteem, relationship stress, and life decisions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice thinking patterns that lead to unhelpful behaviors and then try small experiments to change those patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That may mean starting with short-term solution-focused steps or combining strategies; the plan can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a break at work, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging helps keep momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to use approaches that suit how someone prefers to communicate.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Virginia
- Languages
- English