Enough is enough.
Your teen or young adult needs you to help them make a change. Our therapist is here to help.
My therapy and counseling services are for you if:
I offer virtual therapy for teens, young adults, and families across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware. My work is relational, culturally responsive, and centered on helpingyoung people feel seen, understood, and supported.
Individual therapy: I support teens and young adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, identity exploration, school stress, and major life transitions. Together we build emotional regulation skills, deepen selfunderstanding, and make sense of the systems shaping your experiences.
Family therapy and parent support: Families are complex, and behavior is often communication. I help parents understand what their child is expressing beneath the surface and support families in strengthening connection, communication, and emotional safety.
Traumaresponsive therapy: I use EMDR and other trauma-informed approaches to help clients
process overwhelming experiences in a grounded, manageable way. We move at your pace, with
attention to safety, consent, and clarity.
Support for marginalized and underrepresented youth: I work with LGBTQIA+ youth, youth of color, neurodivergent youth, first generation students, and young people navigating racism, gender expectations, cultural disconnection, or feeling unseen in the systems around them.
College and early career support: Young adults often feel pressure to perform, succeed, or “figure it out.” We explore identity, boundaries, relationships, and the emotional impact of stepping into adulthood.
My work is collaborative and grounded in the belief that young people thrive when they have
space to breathe, tell the truth, and feel held with honesty and care.
Healing Hearts, Healthy Minds provides comprehensive, evidence-based treatment interventions including: EMDR, dialectical behavioral therapy and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy in an empathetic, compassionate, and nonjudgemental environment.
These interventions have been proven effective in treating teens and young adults who struggle with emotional distress and trauma. Parental involvement is key to a teen’s healing process, so the treatment process always includes parental involvement.
Denise also provides assistance to parents and is a parent coach. Parent coaching is available alongside parent support groups. Schedule a 15-minute chat with a licensed virtual therapist for more information.
Step out of chaos & into peace.
Ways to work with Denise.
Depending on your needs, you’ll be fitted with one of the following options.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Comprehensive program involving individual therapy, group therapy, and phone coaching.
Teaches skills in emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness (focus), and interpersonal effectiveness.
Used to treat issues such as self-harm, suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety, ADHD.
Parent sessions provided to learn how to best support your teen.
An intake is required to see if DBT is a good fit.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
Focuses on present concerns.
Helps break through emotional blocks preventing living a life worth living.
Uses a set of procedures that organizes negative and positive thoughts, feelings, and emotions and uses bilateral stimulation to work through disturbing memories.
DBT, EMDR, and TF-CBT are evidence-based interventions proven to be effective in treating symptoms associated with trauma.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
This program provides skills for both child and parent to reduce symptoms that have resulted from trauma. This is best suited for those with a diagnosis of PTSD.
Parent Coaching
Parenting teens and young adults with severe emotional problems can be a challenge. Sometimes parents and caregivers are looking for support when it comes to parenting that is not therapy related.
Please note that the parent coaching I offer is not meant to fulfill court-ordered parenting classes.
Parent coaching is not therapy and is not covered by insurance.
If you’re looking for supervision, consultation, or workshops click here.
The process to get started working with Denise is simple:
