Denise Owen, LCSW

Denise Owen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, parenting strain, and mood challenges. She works with clients facing addiction, trauma, sleep and eating issues, and questions about gender and intimacy. Denise emphasizes practical steps and clear goals in sessions. She earned a Master of Social Work and has been licensed as an LCSW since 1993. Her clinical background includes inpatient and outpatient settings, hospice care, and work with people affected by domestic violence and substance use. Denise has also supported clients through major life changes and grief. Denise prefers to begin by understanding each person's situation and goals. She uses that assessment to choose techniques together with the client rather than imposing one method. If an approach isn’t helping, she will shift to another strategy. Her toolkit includes cognitive behavioral ideas alongside acceptance and commitment practices, mindfulness, client-centered listening, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. Sessions focus on real-world skills people can try between meetings. Outside clinical work she has taught community college psychology courses and a variety of homeschool classes. She has written two children’s books and draws on that broad experience to make sessions practical and approachable.

How Denise Uses Evidence-Based Methods Online

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. It helps with anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and coping with life changes by teaching specific tools to try between sessions.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes accepting difficult feelings while taking actions that match a person’s values. It can reduce avoidance and help when people feel stuck by clarifying values and small steps toward them.

Denise works collaboratively to find the best fit. She begins by asking about goals and daily struggles, then suggests approaches such as CBT or ACT and checks in to see if they are helpful. Together they adjust methods and pace based on what the person needs and prefers.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can support quick check-ins and skill practice between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to use tools in real time.