About Dennis
Dennis Dwyer offers guidance for people facing addictions, relationship struggles, anger, self-esteem challenges, depression, anxiety, sleep problems, work stress, and transitions in life.
Background and approach
With 25 years of clinical experience and an Illinois LCPC credential, he frames therapy around each person’s strengths and values, helping clients identify what matters and take concrete steps toward a more satisfying life. He emphasizes a collaborative stance that treats clients as experts on their own story, combining practical skills training with reflective work.
His practice integrates cognitive and behavioral techniques alongside mindfulness and insight-oriented methods drawn from Jungian ideas. That blend supports clients in managing emotions, improving communication, navigating career and financial concerns, and addressing topics such as body image, trauma, sexuality, and social anxiety.
Clients can expect an empowering, nonjudgmental approach that prioritizes real-world change and inner understanding. Dennis works with a broad range of challenges including parenting, divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt and shame, narcissistic dynamics, and workplace issues, tailoring interventions to each person’s goals and life context.
Combining Evidence-Based Approaches with Online Flexibility
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take committed action even when difficult thoughts or feelings arise; this approach is useful for issues like anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, offering practical tools for mood, sleep, stress, and substance-related challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness, which can be particularly helpful for intense emotions and relationship patterns.Dennis treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. He works with clients to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most useful in daily life, then tailors techniques from these models to fit each person’s needs. That means methods can shift over time as progress and priorities evolve.
Online therapy delivers these approaches through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing for more flexible scheduling and access from different locations. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care around work, family, or travel, while still using structured exercises, mindfulness practices, and behavioral tools across sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English