About Daffney
Daffney Tchassem is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 16 years of experience who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, depression, addictions, and ADHD. She aims to make the first step easier by offering steady, respectful support and practical guidance. Her approach is warm and direct, focused on what will help you day to day.
Daffney adapts conversations to each person's needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters most and works with clients to set clear, manageable goals. Sessions emphasize coping skills, clearer communication, and ways to reduce overwhelming feelings. Her background includes long-term work with people facing trauma, loss, and life transitions.
That background shapes a style that balances emotional understanding with hands-on tools. She draws from several well-known therapeutic methods to match the situation at hand. In sessions she may use techniques that help notice and change unhelpful thoughts, build emotion regulation skills, and strengthen attachment and relationships.
The work often focuses on small, achievable steps that add up over time. Daffney also supports clients dealing with career stress, body image concerns, caregiver strain, and complex medical or chronic conditions. People meet with her by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging.
She practices in Texas and conducts therapy in English. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when thoughts or feelings are difficult. It is often used when anxiety, depression, or life changes make it hard to move forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is practical and problem-focused, and can help with anxiety, depression, and managing ADHD-related routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as progress and circumstances change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and a full conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is an issue or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick processing, coaching-style prompts, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and support ongoing skill practice between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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