Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Depression
How Denise works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New York
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Denise
Denise Cooper is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York with 20 years of clinical experience. She uses a client-centered approach and focuses on helping people manage intense emotions like anger, anxiety, and stress. Denise listens first and works at each person's pace to address the issues that matter most to them.
She often helps people who are coping with trauma, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. Denise also supports people navigating parenting challenges, career stress, and the strain of caregiving or compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with individuals on the autism spectrum and others facing attachment-related concerns. Denise blends practical tools with careful listening. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice patterns of thought and change unhelpful behaviors.
She also uses attachment-based and client-centered techniques to strengthen emotional understanding and personal agency. Sessions can include short-term goal work or longer conversations about roots of recurring problems. People often come with issues like low self-esteem, communication problems, or difficulty coping with life changes.
Denise offers coaching-style support when clients want concrete steps and accountability. She provides care in English and offers several online formats, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Getting started involves a short questionnaire and scheduling a first session that fits the client's routine.
What Denise works with
Everything Denise lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Denise's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Denise lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Denise draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand patterns in relationships, how those patterns affect emotion, and what helps rebuild trust and closeness. This approach is useful when relational wounds, abandonment fears, or family-of-origin issues are at the heart of current struggles.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is practical for managing anger, anxiety, depression, and for building short-term coping skills and problem solving.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Denise will talk with each person about goals, history, and preferences, then suggest ways to work together. The plan can shift over time as needs and priorities change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is helpful for longer therapy conversations and visual cues, phone works well for lower bandwidth or when a shorter check-in is needed, live chat fits quick exchanges, and messaging is useful for ongoing notes and brief reflections. These options aim to make it easier to schedule care around work, family, and daily life.
Questions people ask about Denise
What kinds of problems does she address?
Denise helps people with anger, anxiety, stress, trauma, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and parenting concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is client-centered and collaborative. She listens first, then uses practical strategies drawn from attachment work and cognitive behavioral ideas.
How much experience does she have?
She has 20 years of experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker working with a range of emotional and relational concerns.
Where is she based and licensed?
She is located in New York and holds the LCSW credential issued in New York.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session based on the therapist's availability.