Therapist profile
Denise Smith Baril, LCSW
Florida
Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Relationships and Stress
Continue with DeniseWhere Denise stands
- Credentials
- LCSW
- License
- LCSW, Florida / SW20152; LCSW, Louisiana / 17939
- NPI
- 1417639345
- Experience
- 4 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- Florida
About
- attachment-based ideas
- CBT strategies
- DBT skills
About Denise
Denise Smith Baril is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Florida with four years of clinical experience. She works with adults dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and codependency-related patterns. She also supports people coping with life changes, trauma and abuse, depression, and compassion fatigue.
Denise approaches work from the view that the client is the expert on their life. Sessions focus on what the client wants to change and on practical steps they can take. She uses straightforward conversation, listening, and evidence-informed techniques to help people notice patterns and try different responses.
Her background includes work across individual and group settings. Denise combines ideas from client-centered practice with structured methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and skill-based approaches such as dialectical behavior therapy. She draws on attachment-focused and emotionally-focused ideas when relationships and intimacy are central topics.
In a typical session she helps people clarify what matters to them, name repeated behaviors, and practice small changes that can reduce overwhelm. Topics she addresses include boundary-setting, people-pleasing, living around another person's substance use or moods, and managing caregiver stress.
Denise offers services from Florida and holds LCSW credentials in both Florida and Louisiana. Sessions are conducted in English. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and a first session is scheduled through the site's booking flow.
How sessions work
How her approaches work in online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships. It helps people recognize how early and current attachments shape reactions to closeness, rejection, and conflict, which can be useful when addressing codependency or intimacy-related difficulties.Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person's own goals and experiences. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and supports the client in making decisions and testing small changes in daily life.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) uses straightforward exercises to notice thoughts and behaviors, test unhelpful beliefs, and try new responses. This approach often helps with anxiety, stress, and low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Denise will discuss options and help decide which methods fit a person's needs and preferences. That collaboration guides what is practiced in sessions and what homework or skills are suggested.
Session options should be confirmed before booking since formats are not detailed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or remove travel time. Therapists generally adapt speech and exercises so the work remains practical and focused even when not in the same room.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
4+ years
Listed in
Florida, Louisiana
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and parenting challenges, codependency-related patterns, trauma and related issues.
How would she describe her therapy style?
She uses a client-centered approach paired with practical tools from CBT and DBT, and draws on attachment and emotionally-focused ideas when relationships are central.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has four years of professional experience working in individual and group settings.
What credentials and location apply to her practice?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - holding credentials in Florida and Louisiana and practices from Florida.
In what language are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English only.
Can I work with her from another country?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I need to do to get started?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.