Denise Buckingham , LICSW

Denise Buckingham is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with eight years of experience in the mental health field. She has worked with adults, adolescents, and children, supporting people through depression, anxiety, addictions, trauma, grief, relationship and family concerns, and a wide range of other life challenges. As an LICSW, she holds an advanced clinical social work license that authorizes independent therapeutic practice in Massachusetts.

Denise has a particular interest in working with adolescents, while maintaining a practice that primarily serves adults in person. She is also enthusiastic about message-based and live chat counseling and values the different ways people may prefer to share and process their experiences. Her clinical work spans stress, sleeping difficulties, self-esteem and identity concerns, career and life transitions, ADHD, eating and body-image issues, and caregiving stress among other areas.

Her therapeutic style blends psychodynamic methods - exploring emotions and past experiences through talk therapy - with cognitive-behavioral techniques that examine the links between thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. She adapts the balance of these approaches according to each person’s needs and preferences and places strong importance on the quality of the therapeutic relationship. She is not currently accepting new clients.

Approaches Used Online and What to Expect

Denise draws on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people identify and adjust thoughts and behaviors that contribute to distress. CBT is practical and skills-oriented, often useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and patterns that interfere with daily functioning.

She also uses psychodynamic therapy, which centers on exploring emotions, early relationships, and recurring patterns to deepen self-understanding and process difficult experiences. This approach can be helpful for people working through trauma, relational issues, and long-standing emotional patterns.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Denise works with each person to evaluate goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful in the moment, adjusting techniques over time so therapy stays aligned with the client’s needs.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions by video or phone allow for face-to-face interaction at a distance, while live chat and text-based messaging provide an option for people who communicate better in writing or need more frequent, brief check-ins. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to access support from a licensed professional when in-person visits aren’t possible.