Denise Mason
Warm, practical care for everyday mental health
LICSW, LCSW North Carolina
- Experience
- 20 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Denise
Denise Mason is a licensed social worker practicing in North Carolina with two decades of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood disorders, trauma, addiction, relationship and family concerns, grief, parenting challenges, self-esteem, career transitions, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Denise blends a warm, straightforward presence with practical goal-setting to support clients in moving toward the life they want. Her style centers on the client's needs while drawing from evidence-informed methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, DBT skills, emotionally focused techniques, and mindfulness approaches.
She integrates goal-oriented work for personal and professional growth and uses motivational strategies to help sustain change. Denise values honesty, openness, and a touch of humor when appropriate, offering steady support from the first session onward.
With credentials as an LICSW and LCSW and twenty years of practice, she brings clinical training in family systems and psychology to collaborative care. Denise works with a range of life and mental health challenges and aims to tailor interventions to each person's goals and circumstances.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a practical, skills-oriented approach that helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more adaptive behaviors; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related difficulties. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the therapist's supportive, nonjudgmental stance and helps clients explore their values and goals while feeling understood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) contributes structured skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness when intense emotions or relationship struggles interfere with daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work together with each person to clarify goals, draw from these methods as appropriate, and adjust strategies based on progress and preferences rather than insisting on a single technique.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel commitments while still maintaining regular appointments and ongoing skill practice with a licensed professional.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
20+ years
Licensed
North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina, Vermont, New Jersey
Languages
English