Denise Adeline Muse, LCSW

Denise Adeline Muse is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Tennessee. She offers steady, nonjudgmental support for adults and teenagers facing stress, anxiety, grief, mood changes, addiction, and relationship or parenting strain. Denise writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person.

With 20 years of clinical experience, she draws on practical methods to help people manage symptoms and make daily life feel more manageable. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people focus on values and take small steps toward them. Attachment-based work looks at relationship patterns and how they shape current struggles.

Denise also works with concerns like trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and aging and geriatric issues. She emphasizes a strengths-based, collaborative approach that matches techniques to a person’s goals. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with room for emotion and practical problem solving.

She supports people through life transitions, loss, and the hard work of rebuilding routines. Denise encourages curiosity about what’s working and what’s not, then helps people try concrete steps to change. Her style is warm, straightforward, and steady as clients try new ways of coping.

To begin, prospective clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule based on availability. Denise aims to help people find realistic steps forward and to celebrate progress along the way.

How her approaches fit into online therapy

Denise commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and take small actions that match their values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and supports changes in how people connect and set boundaries, which can be useful for intimacy and communication problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, often helping with mood, sleep, and anxiety.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose methods and adjust the plan as needed so sessions stay relevant to daily life.

Session logistics and exact formats are not listed here, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a weekday break, reduce travel time, or have shorter check-ins when that is helpful. Licensed professionals can use these methods successfully over distance, and Denise will help pick the pace and format that fit each person’s schedule and needs.