About Denise
Denise Adeline Muse welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or worn down by life. She offers a calm, down-to-earth presence and practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, mood struggles, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Denise is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, practicing in Tennessee with two decades of experience.
Her sessions focus on the person in front of her. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can talk through fears, work on coping skills, and set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Denise uses straightforward tools to help with everyday problems like sleep, eating, anger, parenting strain, career stress, and the fog that can come with chronic illness. Denise draws on several approaches to match how someone prefers to work. She blends cognitive behavioral strategies with mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas to shift unhelpful thoughts and build useful habits.
Attachment-based ideas inform how she addresses communication, abandonment concerns, and closeness issues. Her practice also includes trauma-informed methods to process painful memories and reduce their hold on daily life. Sessions may include gradual exposure to difficult material, grounding skills, and memory-processing techniques when appropriate.
Denise keeps things collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort. People who choose Denise often want practical tools, steady support, and a therapist who listens without judgment. She aims to help people find small changes that add up to clearer thinking and better day-to-day functioning.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It uses mindfulness and practical steps to reduce avoidance and increase engagement in life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying patterns in thoughts and behaviors and then practicing new ways of responding. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and many daily coping problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication. It can help with abandonment worries, intimacy issues, and improving how someone relates to others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try different techniques to see what fits best. Decisions about methods are collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for full sessions and visual cues, phone can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is low, chat or messaging work for brief check-ins or written reflection. These options help people get support without rearranging their whole day and make it easier to keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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