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Denise Cooper, LCSW

  • Experience20 years
  • LocationNew York
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Trauma and abuse
  • Therapy approachesAttachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy
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About Denise

Denise Cooper is an LCSW based in New York who brings two decades of clinical experience to her practice. She emphasizes a client-centered stance that honors each person's expertise about their own life while weaving in evidence-informed strategies to address stress, anxiety, trauma and attachment wounds.

Background and approach

Her work often focuses on mood concerns like depression and grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and challenges tied to identity and life transitions including ADHD and career change. Clients seeking support for parenting struggles, compassion fatigue, anger, self-esteem, or the effects of past abuse will find a clinician who integrates attachment-based perspectives with cognitive and mindfulness tools.

Denise also attends to specific areas such as autism, family-of-origin dynamics, fertility-related distress, and communication or control issues. She aims to help people increase fulfillment, strengthen relationships, and build practical coping skills while tailoring interventions to each person’s goals and preferences.

Therapeutic approaches and online care tailored to you

Denise often blends attachment-based work with cognitive behavioral strategies to help clients understand relational patterns and then build practical skills to manage thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Attachment-based therapy explores how early bonds influence current relationships and can be useful for intimacy, abandonment, and family-of-origin concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and developing concrete coping tools for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and stress.

Choosing the right approach is part of the collaborative process. She partners with clients to clarify goals, test what techniques feel most helpful, and adjust methods over time so therapy aligns with each person’s needs and preferences.

Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging creates practical flexibility for people balancing work, parenting, or other obligations. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care when schedules change and support different communication styles, allowing licensed professionals to deliver consistent therapeutic work outside of traditional in-person appointments.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does this therapist commonly address?
Denise focuses on a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, ADHD, parenting challenges, and career or life transitions.
What is her general therapeutic style?
She uses a client-centered approach that respects the person's knowledge of their own life and blends attachment-based, cognitive behavioral, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing techniques to meet individual needs.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Denise has 20 years of professional experience working with diverse mental health and relational concerns.
What credentials and location are listed for this therapist?
She is licensed as an LCSW with NY LCSW 076687 and practices from New York.
In which language are sessions offered and are international clients accepted?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
Which session formats are available for working together?
Denise provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different communication preferences.
How does billing and cost work for sessions?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin therapy with her?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseGriefParenting issuesDepression

Also works with

LGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesAutism and Asperger SyndromeBody imageCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDivorce and separationEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFertility issuesForgivenessGender dysphoriaImpulsivityIntellectual disabilityIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMidlife crisisMoney and financial issuesMood disordersPhobiasPost-traumatic stressPrejudice and discriminationSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingSolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

20+ years

Licensed

New York

Languages

English

What Denise can help with

Denise Cooper works with clients on stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting issues, and depression.

Denise works with trauma, attachment wounds, depression, and anxiety.

How Denise approaches therapy

Denise's clinical approaches include Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy.

Experience and training

Denise is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in New York.