About Denise
Denise Gallo is an AASW social worker with 34 years of professional experience in Australia. She has spent much of her career in statutory child protection and community settings. Denise draws on a long history of practical work to support people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and major life changes.
Denise uses straightforward, respectful conversation to help people feel heard. She adapts her style to each person's needs and keeps sessions focused on what will make a difference day to day.
Background and approach
She combines talking with attention to how the body holds stress and emotion, using somatic ideas alongside other approaches. Her work often centres on rebuilding self-esteem and practical coping skills. She helps people manage compassion fatigue and the impact of difficult relationships on everyday life.
Denise also addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, adoption and foster care histories, and family of origin problems. Denise speaks English, Spanish, French and Italian, which can help people who prefer to use another language in sessions. She describes herself as sensitive and compassionate and aims to create a space where people can take small steps forward.
Therapy with Denise usually involves setting clear, achievable goals and checking progress along the way. She encourages people to use tools between sessions and to bring what feels important into the room. Starting therapy is a step, and she works at a steady, practical pace to help people build resilience.
Therapeutic approaches for body and mind online
Somatic work pays attention to how stress and emotion show up in the body. It can include gentle awareness of breathing, posture and physical sensations to help people notice patterns and reduce tension. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and practical actions. It helps people accept difficult feelings while committing to steps that matter to them. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current ways of relating and coping, and can be useful for people who want to understand trust and connection patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Denise will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. She mixes approaches as useful and checks in regularly so the therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be used when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging suit people who prefer shorter, written check-ins. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caring duties or travel. They also let people try different formats until they find what helps them engage and make progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Spanish, French, Italian