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Denise VonSchmidt, LMHC

  • Experience20 years
  • LocationFlorida
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Relationship, and Family
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Client-Centered Therapy
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About Denise

Denise VonSchmidt is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with two decades of clinical experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, grief, parenting challenges, and a wide range of life transitions.

Background and approach

She also works with issues such as ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, intimacy concerns, career questions, and compassion fatigue, bringing a calm, steady presence to sessions. Her style blends person-centered warmth with practical therapies that encourage insight and action.

Denise draws on Internal Family Systems ideas alongside cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based strategies to help clients recognize internal parts, shift unhelpful patterns, and build coping skills. She emphasizes respect, dignity, and unconditional regard while offering clear guidance when needed.

Clients benefit from a collaborative approach that assumes people hold many of their own answers and may only need support to access them. Denise values trust and validation and aims to create a nonjudgmental environment where change can unfold.

She accepts international clients and provides services across several online formats from her Florida practice.

Online Therapy and Collaborative Approaches for Lasting Change

Denise integrates Internal Family Systems, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in ways that translate well to online work. Internal Family Systems helps clients notice and dialogue with different internal parts to ease internal conflict and heal from trauma. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy, acceptance, and a nonjudgmental stance so clients feel heard and respected as they explore concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers practical tools for identifying and changing thought patterns and behaviors that maintain anxiety, depression, or relationship difficulties.

Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the process; Denise works collaboratively with each person to tailor methods to their goals, preferences, and life context. She helps clients experiment with tools, notice what resonates, and adapt strategies so therapy fits real-world needs rather than forcing a single model.

Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which can increase flexibility for busy schedules, caregiving responsibilities, or geographical distance. These formats make it possible to maintain continuity of care, practice skills between sessions, and access support from her Florida-based practice even when travel or timing is a barrier.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns can Denise help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and family difficulties, grief, parenting struggles, intimacy and eating or sleeping issues among many other concerns.
What is her therapeutic style and approach?
Her style is warm and person-centered, combining client-centered care with cognitive-behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and elements drawn from Emotionally-Focused and Gottman approaches.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Denise brings 20 years of experience working as a counselor and psychotherapist with clients across a wide range of issues and life stages.
What credentials and location does she hold?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida with the credential FL LMHC MH17126 and maintains a practice serving clients from that region.
Are services available in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English, and she does accept international clients.
Which session formats are offered for appointments?
Clients can meet via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on preferences and availability.
How are fees and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a session based on the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseDepression

Also works with

GriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesBlended family issuesBody imageCancerCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)DissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMidlife crisisMoney and financial issuesMood disordersObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPersonality disordersPhobiasPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaSomatizationTraumatic brain injuryTrichotillomaniaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Gottman MethodMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

20+ years

Licensed

Florida

Languages

English