About Darlene
Darlene Goines is a licensed professional counselor with 18 years of experience providing one-on-one therapy in Louisiana. She focuses on practical, real-world help for people facing stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting strains, grief, and self-esteem problems. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping clients take small steps that add up to meaningful change.
In sessions she uses approaches that center the client's perspective and goals. She pays attention to communication patterns, caregiver strain, and the ways past family experiences affect day-to-day life.
How Darlene works
Clients explore what matters to them and try concrete ways to cope and connect more effectively. Common concerns she addresses include intimacy-related challenges, anger, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related struggles. Additional focus areas include abandonment, blended family issues, body image, fertility and caregiver issues, aging and geriatric concerns, and divorce or separation.
She helps people sort through family of origin issues and work on forgiveness when that matters. Her methods emphasize collaboration and building on strengths. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used to set clear, achievable steps.
Client-centered work keeps the person’s priorities first while the therapist listens and reflects. People who prefer practical, goal-oriented sessions often find this approach helpful. Darlene aims to make therapy a space for steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She brings steady support and experience to each session.
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What Darlene works with
The areas below are the ones Darlene selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Client-centered and goal-focused care online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's experience at the heart of each session. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what is heard, and follows the client's lead to clarify goals and priorities. This approach helps with self-esteem, relationship concerns, and sorting through family issues.Motivational Interviewing focuses on helping someone find their own reasons to change. It uses open questions and reflective listening to strengthen motivation and commitment. This can be useful for coping with life changes, caregiver stress, or making behavioral shifts related to ADHD or anger management.
Solution-Focused Therapy is future-oriented and practical. Sessions concentrate on small, achievable steps and on what already works. People with stress, anxiety, or relationship problems often use this method to build momentum quickly.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose or combine methods based on goals and preferences. Together they set clear steps and check progress over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is preferred. Chat and messaging let people send shorter updates or check in between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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