Denise Venitelli, LCSW
New Jersey · 27 years in practice
Denise Venitelli is a licensed clinical social worker in New Jersey with 27 years of experience.
License and registration
- LCSW, New Jersey
- 44SC0531700 · expires August 2026
- NPI
- 1992856199 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 27
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Denise
Denise Venitelli is a licensed clinical social worker in New Jersey with 27 years of experience. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to ease stress, anxiety, depression, and day-to-day struggles. Her approach is straightforward and respectful, aimed at helping people feel more confident in handling life’s changes.
Denise centers conversations on what matters most to each person. She listens for patterns in relationships, attachment, and emotion.
Background and approach
From there she offers tools drawn from several approaches, including emotionally-focused work and cognitive strategies, to address symptoms and relationship patterns. Her background includes long-term practice supporting people coping with trauma, grief, chronic illness, caregiver strain, and parenting stress. Denise also helps clients dealing with identity concerns, intimacy issues, abandonment, and life-purpose questions.
She pays attention to how past relationships shape current struggles and uses that understanding to guide change. Sessions combine problem-focused techniques with a warm, client-centered stance. That can mean building skills for managing anxiety, practicing new ways to talk about needs, or working through loss and shame.
Denise encourages small experiments between sessions so people can test what helps in real life. She offers multiple online formats for ongoing contact, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. People who prefer spoken or written check-ins can choose what fits their routine.
To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session based on therapist availability.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Denise lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Denise names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that guide online sessions
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name strong emotions and the patterns that keep painful cycles going. It is often used to shift how people respond to fear, loss, and closeness issues. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they show up now; it helps people understand why they react a certain way and supports building new, more supported ways of connecting.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Denise will collaborate with each client to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. Together they review what’s felt helpful and adjust the plan as needed so the approach stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers several practical options: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for brief exchanges, and text-based messaging for ongoing check-ins. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, handle shorter touchpoints between meetings, and pick the way of working that feels most natural. Licensed professionals can use these options to maintain continuity of care and adapt sessions to a client’s routine.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns can be addressed?
Denise helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, career doubts, and many other life challenges.
How would you describe the therapy style?
Sessions are client-centered and collaborative, blending emotionally-focused work with attachment ideas and cognitive strategies to address feelings and behavior.
What is Denise's professional background?
She is a licensed clinical social worker with 27 years of professional experience working with trauma, grief, caregiver stress, and relationship concerns.
Where is the therapist located and licensed?
The therapist holds an LCSW in New Jersey and works with clients from that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How are fees and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with therapy?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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