About Darlene
Darlene Kelly is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience who uses practical, people-focused therapy. She listens without judgment and helps clients say what they’ve been holding in. Her style is straightforward and warm, aimed at helping people find workable next steps in their lives.
She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy to match methods to a person's needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on everyday challenges like anxiety, stress, relationship strain, and managing ADHD symptoms. She also helps with grief, addiction concerns, mood struggles, and self-esteem issues. Darlene frames therapy as a place to explore what happened and what comes next.
Conversations are used to identify patterns, try new ways of coping, and set small goals that fit real life. She supports people through career changes, parenting stress, caregiving burdens, and burnout-related compassion fatigue. Her background includes long-term work with diverse concerns including adoption and foster care, attachment issues, chronic illness and pain, body image and eating worries, and commitment or intimacy problems.
That range helps her draw connections across life stages and challenges. People who choose her can expect direct communication, practical strategies, and an emphasis on growth rather than erasing the past. Darlene works from Louisiana and meets people in a variety of online formats to make scheduling easier.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to change how someone feels, which can help with mood, sleeping, and anger. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can be helpful for intimacy, relationship concerns, and attachment issues.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk through goals, try methods, and adjust what they do together based on what helps. Clients can expect a trial-and-see process where strategies are tested and refined to match preferences and needs.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins or coaching-style support possible between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work days, caregiving routines, or periods of transition.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
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
- Bipolar disorder
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- 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
- 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
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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