Denise Adeline Muse, LCSW

Denise Adeline Muse is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Tennessee with two decades of experience supporting adults and teenagers through a wide range of life challenges. Her approach is client-centered, nonjudgmental, collaborative, and strengths-based, emphasizing the individual resources and resilience each person brings to therapy.

She applies a variety of evidence-informed methods to match the needs of each client, drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and grief-focused support. Denise is also certified to provide Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) when trauma-processing techniques are appropriate.

Over the course of her career she has worked with concerns that include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, bipolar disorder, depression, addictions, LGBTQ issues, relationship and family challenges, intimacy-related matters, eating and sleeping problems, parenting difficulties, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. Additional focus areas include abandonment, attachment and blended family issues, caregiving and aging concerns, chronic pain and illness, dissociation, first responder issues, and forgiveness work. Her practice integrates attachment-based and client-centered perspectives to help clients clarify goals, build practical skills, and move toward greater stability and wellbeing.