About Denise
Denise VonSchmidt is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, grief, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, and career changes. Her style is warm, straightforward, and supportive for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
Denise uses a person-centered way of working that treats each client with respect and dignity.
Background and approach
She brings together cognitive-behavioral ideas, mindfulness practices, emotionally-focused work, and practical problem-solving. Sessions focus on clear steps people can try between meetings as well as the feelings that get in the way of change. She listens closely and asks questions that help people notice unhelpful patterns.
Denise aims to help clients find their own answers and build skills for everyday life. She is kind and gentle but can be direct when a firmer approach will help progress. Over two decades Denise has supported people through life transitions, grief, caregiver stress, body-image and eating concerns, adoption and attachment issues, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder.
She also assists with communication problems, commitment and control issues, and coping after disasters. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Denise works with licensed-practice standards in Florida and uses approaches that blend empathy with practical tools to help clients move forward.
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, respect, and helping a person find their own solutions. It’s useful when someone needs validation, steady support, and space to sort through feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, mood concerns, sleep, and coping strategies. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people understand and shift emotional responses, which can improve relationship and intimacy issues.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan so it fits the person’s needs and pace.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel and support sessions that need visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a shorter check-in during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to share thoughts between sessions and keep momentum when schedules are tight. These options give flexibility to continue steady progress while balancing life obligations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English