Denise Honeyford, LCSW

Denise Honeyford is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience supporting people through major life struggles. She works from Tennessee and draws on practical strategies to help people facing depression, anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, and relationship strain. Denise emphasizes people’s strengths and treats them as the expert in their own story.

Her style is direct and steady. Sessions focus on clear goals and concrete skills you can use between meetings. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools for emotion regulation and coping skills.

Denise has worked across a range of concerns including mood disorders, trauma and abuse, substance use, and issues that come with aging or intellectual disability. She also supports people dealing with hospice and end-of-life matters, grief, and isolation. Her background includes long-term practice in clinical settings and community care across state lines before working in Tennessee.

In the room she listens first, then helps build steps you can try right away. Expect practical homework, skill practice, and regular check-ins on progress. The aim is to reduce immediate distress and build habits that make day-to-day life easier.

She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. This range of options is used to fit therapy into a person’s life and routine rather than forcing a single format.

CBT and DBT approaches for online care

Denise uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT work often includes setting small goals, practicing new skills between sessions, and tracking how thoughts affect mood and actions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers tools for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful for mood issues, stress, or relationship strain.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide whether CBT, DBT skills, or a mix of techniques will best support the client’s needs and what to try first.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video is useful for face-to-face interaction and skill coaching, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text let someone check in between meetings or complete brief check-ins without being on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting sessions into work, caregiving, or other daily obligations.