Venise Darisme

Venise Darisme, LCMHC, LPC, brings a person-centered approach to counseling. She focuses on meeting people where they are and building a practical plan together. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping clients manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions.

Venise has 15 years of experience in human services and counseling. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Pastoral Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Marymount University and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a minor in Biology from Mount St. Mary’s University. Her background includes work with eating concerns, trauma, and substance use issues.

In sessions she combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. She also uses existential ideas to help people find meaning, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma-related symptoms when appropriate. These methods are layered into straightforward conversations and practical skill-building.

Her additional focus areas include hospice and end-of-life counseling, aging and geriatric concerns, chronic illness and pain, multicultural issues, and caregiving stress. She also supports people coping with parenting challenges, career changes, and grief related to illness and loss.

Clients can expect brief, clear goals and homework when it helps. Venise emphasizes nutrition and whole-person considerations as part of mental health support. She offers services from Virginia and works in English.

How her approaches fit into online counseling

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's lead to set goals that matter to them. It helps with broad concerns like anxiety, grief, and coping with life transitions by prioritizing the person's own values and choices.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress management.

EMDR addresses distress linked to past trauma by using structured processing techniques alongside talk work. When appropriate, it can help reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and related symptoms.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and daily routines, and together they will try methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress and preferences become clear.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know what formats are offered. Online counseling can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also allows continuation of care during life transitions, while the therapist helps adapt techniques to work in day-to-day life.