About Denise
Denise Cowley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Florida with 25 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, or the ups and downs of bipolar disorder. Denise focuses on building on a person’s strengths so they can move toward a more manageable and satisfying life.
She believes clients know their own stories and brings a respectful, listening style to each meeting.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on practical steps, clearer thinking, and small changes that add up over time. Denise uses straightforward approaches to help people regain confidence and motivation after difficult experiences. Her background includes long-term work supporting people through life transitions, caregiver stress, and health-related challenges like cancer.
She also has experience addressing attachment and family of origin issues, adoption and foster care matters, and substance-related concerns. That breadth helps when problems overlap or feel complicated. Denise draws on goal-oriented tools and client-centered conversations to tailor therapy to each person.
She can help with impulse control, relationship patterns, forgiveness, and coping after separation or domestic violence. Progress often starts with one small change and clear next steps. Clients can expect calm, practical guidance and a focus on workable strategies.
Denise aims to empower clients to use their own strengths while learning new skills for everyday challenges.
Approach-driven online therapy you can use
Denise commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes active listening and meeting each person where they are, helping them feel heard and understood while they decide next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact, and teaches concrete skills to manage anxiety, mood swings, and stressful reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Denise collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. She checks in often and adjusts plans so the work stays relevant and doable for the client.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video works well for fuller conversations and visual cues, phone can be lower bandwidth, chat and messaging suit short check-ins or times when typing feels easier. These options let people schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English