Denise Kidd, LPC

Denise Kidd is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Addiction Counselor working in Colorado. She brings extensive professional experience in behavioral health and recovery services, supporting adults and families through stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, relationship struggles, career challenges, and depression.

Her background spans multiple care settings, including individual therapy in a community health center, work in substance use treatment programs, employee assistance services, and mental health treatment within a hospital environment. This range informs a practical, grounded approach to treatment that adapts to each person and situation.

Denise’s style is warm, interactive, and solution focused. She engages clients with sensitivity, compassion, and attention to multicultural and cross-cultural factors, drawing on approaches such as cognitive behavioral strategies, solution-focused techniques, family systems thinking, mindfulness practices, addiction recovery methods, and psychoeducation. She views each person as the expert in their own story and emphasizes existing strengths as part of the path forward.

Denise collaborates with clients to identify realistic treatment goals and meets them where they are in the counseling journey. Whether the aim is symptom relief, improved functioning, or greater life satisfaction, she offers support and encouragement as clients take steps toward meaningful change.

Approaches Denise Uses in Online Therapy

Denise uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and learn practical strategies to manage anxiety, depression, and mood concerns. This approach focuses on developing skills that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.

She also incorporates EMDR for clients coping with trauma and abuse; EMDR is a structured approach that can help process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity, often supporting progress when traditional talk therapy alone has been limited. Additionally, Denise draws on motivational interviewing to support people dealing with addictions or ambivalence about change - this method emphasizes client motivation and collaborative goal setting.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Denise works collaboratively with each person to determine which techniques best match their needs, goals, and preferences. She tailors treatment plans over time based on what helps the client make steady progress.

Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy schedules, mobility limits, or geographic constraints. Video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide flexible ways to access care, maintain continuity between appointments, and fit therapy into everyday life while working with licensed professionals and therapists who can adapt methods to an online format.