About Venise
Venise Darisme uses a client-centered approach to guide people through stressful life moments. She blends straightforward therapy methods with practical skills to address anxiety, depression, grief, and difficult changes. Venise brings 15 years of experience and holds LCMHC and LPC credentials.
She works from Virginia and conducts sessions in English. Venise focuses on everyday problems that can feel overwhelming, such as sleep disruption, career strain, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and substance-related issues.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing trauma, eating and body-image struggles, ADHD, and chronic health challenges. Sessions aim to be direct, purposeful, and tailored to each person's needs. Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and change behavior.
She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful, listening-based space where goals are set together. For trauma-related concerns, she integrates EMDR-informed strategies and mindfulness practices when appropriate. In sessions Venise prefers practical work: identifying patterns, trying new coping skills, and tracking small changes over time.
She can offer short check-ins by phone or text as well as longer video sessions for deeper conversations. Plans are discussed together so they fit daily life and responsibilities. Venise's background includes training that emphasizes nutrition and mental health, trauma, and eating-related care.
Her experience spans a range of settings and populations, and she brings that variety into goal-focused, understandable therapy. To begin, people complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule a session based on therapist availability.
Approaches that guide online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship so clients set goals and move at their own pace. It helps when someone needs a steady, nonjudgmental space to talk through worries or life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is practical and task-oriented. It helps people spot unhelpful thoughts, test them, and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, or sleep problems.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used for trauma-related symptoms and involves guided processing to reduce the intensity of distressing memories. It is applied when trauma is a clear part of the presenting problem.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, history, and what feels comfortable. Together they decide whether work should focus on skill-building, processing past events, or a blend of methods.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone can be a quicker check-in or better when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat is useful for brief updates or on-the-go support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family time, or medical appointments, and they let licensed professionals offer consistent care across different days and routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Utah
- Languages
- English