About Denise
Denise Goin is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She supports clients facing parenting challenges, grief, anger, career shifts, ADHD, and bipolar concerns. Denise focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier.
With 15 years of experience, she keeps conversations direct and compassionate. Sessions often focus on identifying problems, trying small changes, and building coping skills that fit daily life.
Background and approach
She uses short-term goal work alongside deeper emotional exploration when needed. Her approach is rooted in client-centered care, which means clients set the pace and topics. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors.
Denise also draws on dialectical strategies and mindfulness to help with intense emotions and day-to-day stress. Denise offers a practical eye for life transitions like midlife shifts, caregiving strain, or job changes. She helps people untangle family conflict, money worries, and issues around self-worth.
Conversations are straightforward and focus on what the person wants to change. She is licensed in Tennessee as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Sessions are offered in English and delivered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
For those ready to begin, the process starts by selecting Start Therapy and completing a brief matching questionnaire.
How her therapeutic approaches fit online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person and their goals. The therapist listens closely and follows the client’s lead to identify what matters most and what to work on. This approach helps when someone needs space to sort priorities or decide next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions often include simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and practical problems like work stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then introduce techniques that fit those needs. This is a collaborative process and can shift as goals change over time.
Online formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick updates, skill practice, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep up with therapy while juggling responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Tennessee, Connecticut, Virginia
- Languages
- English