About Denise
Denise Adeline Muse is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 20 years of practice to people facing stress, anxiety, mood concerns, trauma, grief, addiction, relationship challenges, and ADHD. She speaks plainly and focuses on helping clients make manageable changes that fit their daily lives. Denise uses a client-centered, nonjudgmental style that highlights a person's strengths.
Sessions are collaborative - she listens first, then helps set practical goals. She draws on methods that teach skills for coping, emotional regulation, and clearer thinking.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience working with adults and teenagers on issues such as depression, bipolar swings, sleep or eating problems, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses concerns like attachment wounds, abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and reactions after disasters. This range shapes how she tailors each plan for the person in front of her.
Common tools in her work include cognitive behavioral approaches to change unhelpful thoughts, mindfulness practices to reduce rumination, and trauma-focused methods for processing painful memories. She blends these with acceptance-based ideas to help people clarify values and take steps that matter to them. Sessions move at a practical pace.
Denise aims to build small wins that add up over time. People who want straightforward, steady support and clear techniques to handle daily life often find her style helpful.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Denise integrates cognitive behavioral work and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and move toward a values-based life. Cognitive behavioral techniques target thought patterns and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) combines acceptance of difficult feelings with clear action steps tied to what matters most, which can help when people feel stuck.She also uses attachment-informed ideas to make sense of relationship patterns and emotional reactions. Attachment-based work helps people recognize how early bonds affect current relationships and builds new ways to connect and regulate emotions. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a team effort - the therapist and client will review goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions can be held by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing tracking and quick support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping the work focused and practical.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- 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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