About Darlene
Darlene Mayers is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Florida with 26 years of experience. She focuses on practical ways to make daily life easier for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, trauma, and ADHD. She aims to meet clients where they are and work toward clear, workable changes.
Her approach is warm and interactive. She listens first, then helps set goals that fit each person’s life.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill-building and short-term strategies to reduce symptoms and improve coping. Darlene blends several evidence-informed methods to match a client's needs. She uses client-centered principles to keep the work grounded in the person’s priorities.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps uncover patterns of thinking that keep problems going. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness techniques to strengthen emotion regulation and present-moment awareness. Motivational Interviewing is used when people need support finding motivation for change, such as with substance use.
Across her practice she focuses on everyday concerns like relationships, parenting stress, work strain, identity questions, and life transitions. Her goal is to help people build practical tools and clear steps forward. Darlene works with adults seeking support for mood, behavior, or life changes.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting relationship and following the person's priorities. Online sessions using this approach involve listening closely, reflecting concerns, and helping you set goals that feel achievable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In video or phone sessions CBT can include simple exercises, homework, and real-time skill practice to reduce anxiety or manage mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication. DBT skills can be taught and practiced over chat, phone, or video to help manage intense emotions and improve day-to-day functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals, and preferences to choose methods that fit. That decision is collaborative and can change as you progress or as new needs appear.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls let you use visual cues and practice skills in the moment. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for quick reflections, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options give flexibility to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or other commitments while still using structured therapeutic methods.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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