Denise VonSchmidt
Compassionate counselor focused on practical change
LMHC Florida
- Experience
- 20 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Family
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Denise
Denise VonSchmidt is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 20 years of counseling experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and issues with sleep, eating, or self-esteem.
Background and approach
Denise takes a calm, respectful approach and aims to help people find practical steps forward. Her style is warm and person-centered.
She listens carefully and treats people with dignity and compassion. Sessions are supportive but can include firm, focused guidance when needed.
Denise blends several methods to match a person’s needs. She draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to reframe unhelpful thinking and from mindfulness to build present-moment awareness.
She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas and the Gottman Method where relationship patterns are relevant. In sessions she helps people identify small, manageable changes that add up.
She works with clients on communication, coping with life transitions, managing anger, and building stronger routines. Denise believes many people already have answers inside and she helps them connect to those solutions.
Her long experience includes supporting people through adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, body image, and chronic health challenges such as cancer. Denise also addresses ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and complex emotional responses after disasters or major life events.
Therapy can be scheduled in formats that fit a busy life, with options for video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions follow a collaborative plan based on each person’s goals and preferences.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Denise often uses the Gottman Method to address relationship patterns and communication. In online sessions this means focusing on specific interaction skills and repairing small moments of disconnection to improve how people relate to one another. Client-Centered Therapy is another core influence - it emphasizes listening, respect, and supporting each person to find their own answers while the therapist offers empathy and validation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, appears in work on thoughts and behaviors, helping people notice unhelpful thinking and try new, practical ways of coping.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Denise will collaborate with each person to decide which tools to try based on goals, preferences, and what seems to help. That plan can change over time as progress and needs evolve.
Online therapy lets people use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits their life. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging are helpful for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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Experience
20+ years
Licensed in
Florida
Languages
English