Denise Cooper , LCSW

Denise Cooper is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York with 20 years of clinical experience supporting adults through a wide range of life challenges. She emphasizes a client-centered approach that recognizes each person as the expert on their own life, and she works collaboratively to meet people where they are and move forward from there.

Her practice focuses on trauma and attachment wounds, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, parenting, intimacy-related issues, and stress. She also has specialized experience supporting individuals with autism and Asperger syndrome, as well as those coping with abandonment, codependency, and family-of-origin problems. Additional areas of focus include career and life changes, fertility and fertility-related stress, and compassion fatigue.

Denise blends attachment-based insights with practical strategies to help clients build stronger connections, improve communication, and regain a greater sense of joy and fulfillment. As an LCSW she brings clinical social work training to therapy while centering each person’s goals and preferences, aiming to create meaningful, achievable change over time.

Approaches for Online Healing and Connection

Denise integrates attachment-based work and client-centered principles with practical cognitive-behavioral strategies to support clients in online therapy. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns that formed in early relationships and how those patterns affect current bonds and emotional safety - this approach can be helpful for people struggling with intimacy, abandonment fears, or relationship cycles. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on empathy, nonjudgmental listening, and helping clients identify their own goals - it is useful for building self-understanding, confidence, and direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers concrete tools to notice and reframe unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can ease symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Denise works collaboratively with each person to choose and adjust methods based on individual needs, goals, and preferences, tailoring sessions so they feel relevant and manageable.

Online therapy with Denise uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility and accessibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, continue work through transitions, and maintain a steady course of care even when in-person meetings are impractical.