- Client-Centered Therapy
- CBT
- Solution-Focused
About Denise
Denise Black Winston is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia with nine years of counseling experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, self-esteem, depression, coping with life changes, addictions, grief, and issues common to young adults. Denise helps people who feel overwhelmed by early-adult transitions like starting work, managing relationships, and adjusting to new responsibilities.
Before becoming an LPC, she worked for many years in Child Welfare as a social worker across Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Georgia. That background informed her work with family conflict, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, and codependency. She draws on practical experience supporting people through difficult life events.
In sessions she uses client-centered methods to listen and reflect what matters to each person. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice unhelpful thinking patterns and Solution-Focused Therapy to set short-term, achievable goals. Those approaches are used to address anxiety, depression, addictive behaviors, and social anxiety.
Denise aims to make sessions straightforward and direct. Conversations focus on clear steps, coping strategies, and small experiments people can try between meetings. She pays attention to practical barriers like fatigue, isolation, and changing routines that often show up in early adulthood.
People who come for help can expect a counselor who draws on broad social work experience and recent clinical practice. She works in English and practices in Georgia. Before booking, confirm the current session formats to make sure they fit your schedule.
How therapeutic approaches guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what a person says. It helps someone feel understood and clarifies what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, moods, and behaviors connect. It helps with anxiety, depression, and habits by using practical exercises and experiments.Finding the best approach is collaborative. Denise will work with the client to choose which methods to try based on current problems, goals, and how someone prefers to work. She adjusts the plan as progress and needs become clearer, and patients can revisit goals over time.
The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten check-ins when schedules are tight, or avoid travel time between commitments. It also supports trying structured CBT exercises and solution-focused goal setting in between meetings to keep progress moving.
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Experience
9+ years
Listed in
Georgia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and relationship and family problems, including adoption and foster care related concerns.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She uses client-centered listening, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at thoughts and behaviors, and Solution-Focused Therapy to set short-term goals.
How much experience does the counselor have?
She has nine years as a licensed professional counselor and many earlier years working in child welfare as a social worker.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Georgia.
Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats does she offer?
The biography does not specify session formats; please confirm the current session options before booking.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with scheduling a first session?
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