About Venise
Venise Darisme, LCMHC, LPC uses a client-centered approach to help people facing anxiety, stress, grief, eating concerns, and phobias. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. Venise brings 15 years of experience to her work and practices in Virginia.
Sessions are offered in English. Venise tailors each session to the person's current needs. She combines client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques to reduce distressing thoughts and change reactions.
Background and approach
She also uses mindfulness practices to help people manage intense feelings and EMDR when trauma memories are present. Her background includes work in counseling, grief support, eating-related concerns, and trauma. That experience shaped a style that is direct but warm.
Venise aims to make therapy easy to understand and to fit into daily life. In sessions she focuses on clear goals and simple tools. People learn concrete skills for sleeping better, reducing panic, managing anger, and improving self-esteem.
She also addresses life changes like career transitions, caregiving, and chronic illness challenges. Venise notes special interest in multicultural concerns, immigration issues, and prejudice-related stress. She also supports people coping with compassion fatigue, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and intimacy-related concerns.
Her work includes older adult issues, cancer and hospice-related counseling, and family problem themes.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy is about listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most to the individual; it helps people feel heard and decide what changes to try next. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, panic, and low mood. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) helps people process distressing memories when trauma is a factor, and it can be offered in a paced way over video or phone.Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will work together with the person to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted as progress is made so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online formats give flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and EMDR-like processing. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, and quick problem-solving during the week. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or health limitations while keeping the focus on usable tools and steady progress.
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What this therapist 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
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