About Darlene
Darlene Graham is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Indiana with 17 years of experience helping people work through relationship and life challenges. She frames growth as a step-by-step process and focuses on practical change. Darlene invites clients who want clearer relationships and more purpose to take that next step.
Darlene combines a relational outlook with hands-on tools. She listens for how thoughts and patterns shape reactions, then helps people try small shifts.
How Darlene works
Sessions often include concrete strategies to manage anger, build self-esteem, or improve communication. She also helps people navigate career decisions, midlife transitions, and questions about life purpose. Eating and body-image concerns are part of her practice, addressed with attention to daily habits and self-compassion.
Intimacy-related issues and forgiveness work are approached through practical conversations and experiential exercises. Darlene uses approaches that center the person and their relationships. She draws on methods that focus on emotions, attachment, and changing unhelpful thoughts to produce different outcomes in day-to-day life.
Clients who prefer a collaborative, goal-focused style tend to do well with her. Her work includes coaching-style guidance alongside clinical counseling. That blend helps people move from insight to action.
Darlene aims to make sessions useful, clear, and geared toward steady progress.
Darlene lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
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.
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Anger management
- Body image
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
How relational and cognitive approaches work online
Darlene uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional reactions. This approach helps people who want clearer connection, less reactivity, and more stable patterns in their close relationships.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening without judgment and helping the person lead the work. That approach supports growing self-trust, building self-esteem, and finding personal direction.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. The choice of methods evolves with progress and feedback, and the therapist and client collaborate on which tools to use.
Online therapy with Darlene can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when that is helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflection, or ongoing support between longer sessions.
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A practical next step
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