About Denise
Denise VonSchmidt is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 20 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief or trauma, and address relationship and intimacy concerns. Parents who struggle with sleeping, eating, or parenting stress can find practical support.
She also works with people facing career shifts, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her style is warm and person-centered. Sessions are respectful and nonjudgmental.
Background and approach
She listens first and helps people find their own answers. She can be gentle and encouraging, and direct when a clearer plan is needed. Denise blends straightforward skills with talking and reflection.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Mindfulness practices are offered to calm the body and steady attention during stressful moments. For relationship concerns she draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method to improve emotional connection and communication.
That combination helps people rehearse new ways of talking and rebuild trust after conflict. Her work includes additional focuses such as adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, and coping after disasters. She aims to help people make practical changes that fit their lives.
Denise provides services in English and is available to international clients. As an LMHC in Florida, she brings two decades of counseling experience to sessions designed to be useful and doable for busy lives.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Denise often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) online to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. In a session she will help a person notice patterns, try small experiments between sessions, and review what worked and what didn't. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is used for relationship and intimacy concerns to help people name emotions and change interaction patterns that lead to disconnection. Online EFT focuses on practice of new ways of responding and building emotional safety. Client-Centered Therapy underpins her work by keeping the person's experience central; sessions begin with listening and respect and then move toward goals together.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust over time. Clients are invited to give feedback on what helps so the plan can shift as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skill practice. Phone sessions can be an easier option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help people fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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
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