About Denise
Denise Owen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with decades of hands-on experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and substance use concerns. She uses an approachable, down-to-earth style and aims to understand what matters most to each person. Denise works from North Carolina and speaks English.
Her background includes work in both inpatient and outpatient settings, a medical hospital, a state psychiatric hospital, and services on a military base.
Background and approach
Denise has supported people facing severe and long-term psychiatric issues, hospice needs, developmental and behavioral concerns in children, and the effects of trauma and domestic violence. She has practiced social work since 1986 and held her LCSW license since 1993. Denise prefers to begin by assessing each person and then involving them in decisions about which methods to try.
She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral techniques, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, client-centered work, and mindfulness practices. If one way does not help, she is willing to shift course. She keeps skills current through continuing education, including conferences on medical, psychological, and social work topics.
That ongoing learning informs her work with complex needs like addictions, bipolar symptoms, trauma responses, and family conflict. Outside clinical work she has taught community college psychology and homeschool classes, and she has published two children’s books. Denise values building rapport first and compares therapy to exercise - hard to start, usually worth it in the end.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low motivation, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of thinking and behavior to reduce symptoms like depression and anxiety. These approaches are action-oriented and often include concrete skills to practice between sessions.Denise works collaboratively to find the best fit. She starts by assessing needs and goals, then suggests approaches to try. If a method does not help, she will adjust the plan together with the person. The process is shared and paced to match individual preferences and life demands.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a hands-free check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, coaching-style support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still using structured therapeutic methods.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English